Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. – Hal Borland

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. – 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; and thus he would never know the rhythms that are at the heart of life. – Hal Borland
Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it – Hal Borland