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.
Hal BorlandSummer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
Hal BorlandTo know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.
Hal BorlandEach new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
Hal BorlandFor the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.
Hal BorlandThere 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 choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts.
Hal Borland