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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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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland

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Nature
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Hal Borland
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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

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Autumn
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Hal Borland
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Other Quotes from
Arbor Day
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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. – Martin Luther

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Arbor Day

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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Arbor Day

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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Arbor Day

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. – Stephan Girard

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Arbor Day

Random Quotes

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. – Robert Ingersoll, Individuality

Category:
Conformity

Sometimes it’s harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can’t pretend you’re not at home. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Mind

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. – James Truslow Adams

Category:
Attitude

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. – Red Auerbach

Category:
Apology