Quotes by : Hal Borland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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