"Listen to it, and you are hearing the……" — Hal Borland
"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 the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move."
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Hal Borland
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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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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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