Hal Borland

"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."

- Hal Borland

"October is a fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen."

- Hal Borland

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it."

- Hal Borland

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

- Hal Borland

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

- Hal Borland

""No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.""

- Hal Borland

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

- Hal Borland

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

- Hal Borland

"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

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

- Hal Borland

"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

"Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him."

- Hal Borland

"October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hill once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above that hill once again."

- Hal Borland

"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

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

- Hal Borland

"What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade."

- Hal Borland

"Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on."

- 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."

- Hal Borland

"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance."

- 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.""

- Hal Borland

"Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on."

- Hal Borland

"July is a blind date with summer."

- Hal Borland

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, it’s long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January."

- Hal Borland

"July is a blind date with Summer."

- Hal Borland

"July is hot afternoons and sultry nights and mornings when its joy just to be alive. July is a picnic and a red canoe and a sunburned neck and a softball game and ice tinkling in a tall glass. July is a blind date with summer."

- Hal Borland