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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/when-we-talk-of-flood-control-we-usually-think-of-dams-and-deeper/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

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> [Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/strip-the-hills-drain-the-boglands-and-you-create-flood-conditions/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

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## More by Hal Borland

> [Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/some-people-are-like-ants-give-them-a-warm-day-and-a-piece-of-ground/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/weekend-planning-is-a-prime-time-to-apply-the-deathbed-priority-test/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/if-you-would-know-strength-and-patience-welcome-the-company-of-trees/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/of-all-the-everyday-plants-of-the-earth-grass-is-the-least/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/a-frontier-is-never-a-place-it-is-a-time-and-a-way-of-life/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [ \[The Christmas story\] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/the-christmas-story-is-as-simple-as-was-the-man-himself-and-his/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/any-river-is-really-the-summation-of-a-whole-valley-it-shapes-not/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/man-is-wise-and-constantly-in-quest-of-more-wisdom-but-the-ultimate/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/there-are-some-things-but-not-too-many-toward-which-the-countryman/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/there-is-a-leisure-about-walking-no-matter-what-pace-you-set-that/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/the-earth-s-distances-invite-the-eye-and-as-the-eye-reaches-so-must/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/the-earth-turns-and-the-seasons-and-for-all-his-pride-and-power-man/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/a-snowdrift-is-a-beautiful-thing-if-it-doesn-t-lie-across-the-path/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [“You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/you-cn-t-be-suspicious-of-a-tree-accuse-a-bird-or-squirrel-of/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

> [If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-borland/if-the-voice-of-the-brook-was-not-the-first-song-of-celebration-it/)

[Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-borland/)

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