Quote by Hal Borland
You cant be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of

You cant be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. – Hal Borland

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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things. – Hal Borland

Category:
Immigration
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Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves…. The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes. – Hal Borland

Category:
Autumn
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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

Category:
Nature
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Nature
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature

Nature will not be admired by proxy. – Winston Churchill

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Nature
[H]e ran, he stopped—he dipped his glowing face into the cloud of blossoming bushes, and would fain lose himself in the humming world between the leaves; he pressed the scratched face into the deep, cooling grass, and hung delirious on the breast of the immortal mother of Spring. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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Nature

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. – James Whitcomb Riley

Category:
Nature

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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. – Martin Heidegger

Category:
History

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. Its close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. – Elie Wiesel

Category:
Knowledge

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Excess

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
War