Hal Borland quotes

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. (Hal Borland)
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. View quote
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. View quote
Hal Borland
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. View quote
Hal Borland
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. View quote
Hal Borland
You fight dandelions all week-end, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity. View quote
Hal Borland
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. View quote
Hal Borland
April is a promise that May is bound to keep. View quote
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. View quote
Hal Borland
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. View quote
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)
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. View quote
Hal Borland
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. View quote
Hal Borland