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Hal Borland [1900-1978] American

Rank: 101
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Harold "Hal" Glen Borland was a well-known American author, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and editorialist for The New York Times.

Nature, Wisdom, Faith, Patience, Experience, New Year's, Strength

Quote	Tags	Rank
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.	Nature, Patience	101
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.	Experience, New Year's, Wisdom	102
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.		103
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.	Nature	104
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.		105
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.		106
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.	Patience, Strength	107
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.		108
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.	Faith, Wisdom	109
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.		110
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.		111
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.	Nature	112
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 faith rather than reason.	Faith, Wisdom	113

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