You can't be suspicious of a tree, or ac... by Hal Borland | We Heart Quotes

Author journalist Challenge memoirist nature writer

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

- Hal Borland

Other quotes by Hal Borland

Autumn

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

- Hal Borland

Faith Fact Time Man

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.

- Hal Borland

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

- Hal Borland

Trees Strength

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

- Hal Borland

Lie Road

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.

- Hal Borland

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

- Hal Borland

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