Hal Borland Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“April is a promise that May is bound to keep.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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 time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.”

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