Quotes by Hal Borland

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.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

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

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.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

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.

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.

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