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

Other quotes by Hal Borland

Here comes February, a little girl with her first valentine, a red bow in her wind-blown hair, a kiss waiting on her lips, a tantrum just back of her laughter. – Hal Borland

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Seasons
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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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Miracles
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Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of completion; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with Autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the substance of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon? – Hal Borland

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Autumn
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Other Quotes from
Arbor Day
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. – Cree Indian Proverb

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Arbor Day

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life. – John Muir

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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

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Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry – not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger. – Tom Colicchio

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I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. – Samuel Johnson

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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. – Abdul Kalam

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Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. – Rumi

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Rumi