"As I stood and watched the mists slowly……" — Hal Borland
"As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this."
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58 Quotes by Hal Borland
Hal Borland has 58 quotes on this site.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full…
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is…
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills…
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology…
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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block…
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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due…
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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of…
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a…
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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