Hal Borland Quotes

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• [The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains…
• 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 to…
• Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.
• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
• Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods…
• Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of…
• I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still…
• 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…
• You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can…
• Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.
• Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What…
• For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the…
• Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
• Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age…
• No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.
• March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.
• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it…
• Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you would spent more prime weekend hours…

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