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
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 Image
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 Image
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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