Autumn Quote by Hal Borland

“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 finality of year's end.” quote by Hal Borland — Download Open image

“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 finality of year's end.”

Hal Borland

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Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is an unmistakable way. Directly or indirectly it provides the bulk of man's food, his meat, his bread, every scrap of his cereal diet. Without grass we would all starve, we and all our animals. And what…

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

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“Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.”

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The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless…

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The measured blood beats out the year's delay.

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You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles…

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He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen…

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“Easter blessings All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves awaken our senses and power to love and be whole Our Mother Earth, Our Father Sky…

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