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

- Hal Borland

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

- Hal Borland

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

The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in …

- Hal Borland

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

- 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

There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly …

- Hal Borland

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

- Hal Borland

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow i…

- Hal Borland