In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both… — 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 keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming… — 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 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 an unmistakable way. Directly or indirectly it provides the bulk of man's food, his meat, his bread, every scrap of his cereal diet. Without grass we would all starve, we and all our animals. And what… — 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 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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