(16 quotes found)
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
Hal Borland
“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 ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night”
“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.”
“To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home”
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
“April is a promise that May is bound to keep.”
“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.”
“For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards 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.”
