Hal Borland
Hal Borland
Harold "Hal" Glen Borlandwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 May 1900
CountryUnited States of America
appreciate knowing meaning understand
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
strength patience tree
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
time sun dimensions
Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.
winter white may
To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
yesterday shapes tomorrow
All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.
sight horizon october
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.
winter two ease
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.
time discovery feet
All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.
sight giving people
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.
symbolism apples happiness-and-love
In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.