Hal Borland on Nature
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008A 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.
- Hal Borland
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.
- Hal Borland
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- George Bernard Shaw
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
- Charles Lindbergh
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men… trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.
- John Muir
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
- David Gerrold
Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?
- Lane Olinghouse
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
- e. e. cummings
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
- Sandra Day O’Connor
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
- Andrew Wyeth