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Hal Borland - From the Beginning category:
The ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed... which calls forth faith rather than reason. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Change category:
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Colour category:
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 partridge berries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Difficulty category:
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. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Discovery category:
All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Earth category:
The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Finishing category:
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Fire category:
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. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Health category:
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 love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me the May apple is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Journey category:
Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Limitations category:
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Nature category:
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Nature category:
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Opportunity category:
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. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Questions category:
Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it? (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Spirituality category:
For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches toward that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Strength category:
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Struggle category:
You fight dandelions all weekend, 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. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Suffering category:
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Time category:
Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Travel category:
He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Trust category:
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. (Hal Borland)
Hal Borland - From the Wisdom category:
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. (Hal Borland)
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