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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

Hal Borland

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Hal Borland
Age: 77 †
Born: 1900
Born: May 14
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.
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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.
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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.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.
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He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.
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Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.
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No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.
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All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.
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Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.
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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.
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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
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There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.
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If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
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Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.
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Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.
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