Hal Borland's Quote - If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of tr

Quote by Hal Borland

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of tr

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. – Hal Borland

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For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is. – 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

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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

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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. – Henry David Thoreau

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Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. – Sara Ebenreck, American Forests

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Any fool can destroy trees…. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools… – John Muir, “The American Forests,” August 1897

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You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. – Denise Levertov

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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained. – Nicolas Manetta

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