Hal Borland Quotes

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
• If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of…
• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and…
• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
• A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to…
• April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
• To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
• For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about…
• Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.
• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.
• The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same…
• There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know…
• There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will…
• There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and…
• Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.
• Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

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