Quotes by Hal Borland

“Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stone...”

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

“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.”

“You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.”

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

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

“Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but 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 ...”

“In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both l...”

“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”

“Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.”

“Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.”

“No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.”

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

“Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”

“Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stone...”

“No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.”

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

“Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”

“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 advers...”

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”