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Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

Hal Borland

Nature, Simple, Sometimes

Hal Borland (1959). “The Enduring Pattern”

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Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

Hal Borland

Fall, Autumn, Men

Hal Borland (1969). “Homeland: A Report from the Country”

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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.

Hal Borland

Wisdom, Lying, New Beginnings

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Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.

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Summer, Color, Land

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There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

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Weather, Fog, Moisture

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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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Autumn, Light, Glowing

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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.

Hal Borland

Sports, Country, Boys

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To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

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Winter, White, Bud

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Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

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Failure, Next Week, Today

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Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any river as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part of it.

Hal Borland

Rain, Thinking, Rivers

"Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country".

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All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.

Hal Borland

Weed, Rain, Simple

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A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.

Hal Borland

Mean, Air, Blood

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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.

Hal Borland

Family, Home, House

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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

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Nature, Heart, Autumn

"Sundial of the Seasons". Book by Hal Borland, 1964.

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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

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Sight, New Horizons, October

Hal Borland (2014). “This Hill, This Valley”, p.255, Open Road Media

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When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

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Running, Thinking, Rivers

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Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

Hal Borland

Autumn, Wind, Two

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You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

Hal Borland

Weed, Nature, Monday

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Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

Hal Borland

Work, Humble, Airplane

Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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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.

Hal Borland

Strong, Spring, Rain

Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

Hal Borland

Eye, America, Mind

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For 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 Borland

Fall, Autumn, Years

Hal Borland (1946). “An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons”, New York

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Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

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Kids, Weekend, Shopping

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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 the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. It’s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange.

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Lonely, Autumn, Winter

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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.

Hal Borland

Beautiful, Block, Lying

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Born: May 14, 1900
Died: February 22, 1978
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