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

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Autumn
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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

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Autumn
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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

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Faith
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Nature
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature. – Christopher Morley

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Nature

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. – W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919

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Nature

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. – Pam Brown

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Nature

Hidden nature is secret God. – Sri Aurobindo

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Nature

Random Quotes

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. – Mae West

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Dieting

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. – James Welch

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Imagination

Im aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. – Isabel Allende

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Dreams

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether thats even possible, interested me. – Ian Mcewan

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Forgiveness