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Hal Borland Quotes

«Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.»
Author: Hal Borland | About: Nature | Keywords: appreciate, grass, persistence, trees
«No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.»
Author: Hal Borland | About: Seasons | Keywords: lasts, skipped, skipping, skips, spring, winter
«April is a promise that May is bound to keep.»
«To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home»
Author: Hal Borland | About: Absence | Keywords: village
«Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night»
«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.»
«Year?s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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»