Hal Borland

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ”

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ”

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ”

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination. ”

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ”

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but 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 forth faith rather than reason. ”

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. ”