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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland
Challenge
Ideology
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.
Hal Borland
Lie
Road
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.
Hal Borland
Heart
Dancing
Fire
Tongue
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
Hal Borland
April
May
Promise
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Hal Borland
Strength
Company
Patience
Trees
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
Meaning
Patience
Persistence
Trees
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.
Hal Borland
Faith
Time
Wisdom
Beginnings
Deals
Fact
Lies
Man
Quest
Reason
Universe
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
October
Sight
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
Autumn
Moon
Night
Summer
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
June
Summer
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.
Hal Borland
Faith
Time
Wisdom
Beginnings
Deals
Fact
Lies
Reason
Universe
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland
Spring
Winter