| "A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart." Hal Borland |
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| A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination Hal Borland |
| Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Hal Borland Sayings |
| April is a promise that May is bound to keep. Hal Borland |
| Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have. Hal Borland |
| For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is. Hal Borland |
| Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it — and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement. Hal Borland Quotes |
| Here comes February, a little girl with her first valentine, a red bow in her wind-blown hair, a kiss waiting on her lips, a tantrum just back of her laughter. Hal Borland Remarks |
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| I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. Hal Borland Popular Quotes |
| If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. Hal Borland |
| Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Hal Borland Quotes |
| March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice. Hal Borland Popular Quotes |
| No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland Quotes |
| October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. Hal Borland |
| Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night 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 Quotes |
| The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. Hal Borland |
| There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. Hal Borland |
| To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home Hal Borland Popular Quotes |
| Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. 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. Hal Borland Quotes |
| You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. Hal Borland |
