Gone Quote by Hal Borland

“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.”

Hal Borland

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

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

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

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