Hal Borland

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity…

— Hal Borland

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime…

— Hal Borland

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

— Hal Borland

Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the…

— Hal Borland

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.

— Hal Borland

[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount…

— Hal Borland

Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the…

— Hal Borland

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a…

— Hal Borland

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid…

— Hal Borland

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

— Hal Borland

The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I…

— Hal Borland

The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course.…

— Hal Borland

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road…

— Hal Borland

“You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet”

— Hal Borland

If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for…

— Hal Borland

You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom,…

— Hal Borland

When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their…

— Hal Borland

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter…

— Hal Borland

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and…

— Hal Borland

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing…

— Hal Borland

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

— Hal Borland

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth,…

— Hal Borland

Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of…

— Hal Borland

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

— Hal Borland

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

— Hal Borland