Hal Borland Quotes

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• The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is…
• There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.
• To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find…
• 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 grocery…
• For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in…
• He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.
• Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and…
• Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.
• All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.
• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.
• A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of…
• As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.
• Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there…
• The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now,…
• The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.
• All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.
• If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.
• There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.
• Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its…
• 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…

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