When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill.… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share
Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours… — Hal Borland Copy Share
Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is… — Hal Borland Copy Share
[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still… — Hal Borland Copy Share
Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of… — Hal Borland Copy Share
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. — Hal Borland Copy Share
There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness… — Hal Borland Copy Share
There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension. — Hal Borland Copy Share
The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone… — Hal Borland Copy Share
The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are… — Hal Borland Copy Share
A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads… — Hal Borland Copy Share
“You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet” — Hal Borland Copy Share
If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event. — Hal Borland Copy Share
