Hal Borland

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

— Hal Borland

#appreciate #grass #i #i can #knowing

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. ↗

— Hal Borland

#fall #autumn

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

#again #also #clearly #constellations #distant

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

#autumn #comes #ends #every #every night

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ↗

— Hal Borland

#lasts #skips #spring #turn #winter

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

#accuse #bird #challenge #ideology #squirrel

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

#beautiful #beautiful thing #block #destination #leads

April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ↗

— Hal Borland

#bound #keep #may #promise

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

— Hal Borland

#company #know #strength #trees #welcome

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. ↗

— Hal Borland

#days #due #gone #january #june