Hal Borland

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

“Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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 th...”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”