Hal Borland Quotes

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds...

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is li...

Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet...

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can...

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

Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street.....

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ide...

No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and...

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a ...

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginn...

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is...

Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a ...