"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or……" — Hal Borland
"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."
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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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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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Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to…
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More Accuse Quotes
This quote is filed under Accuse Quotes,
one of 211 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
— David Attenborough
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Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
— Julie Burchill
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
— Hugo Chavez
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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.
— Hillary Clinton
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Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.
— Joseph Sobran
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken…
— William Gurnall
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
— Eric Clapton
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has…
— Primo Levi
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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
— John Milton
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You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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