Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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The winter wind is like a cold surf beating through the bare treetops and sweeping through the valleys. It roars in the night, an elemental voice it whistles at the house and TD corner and it rattles the shutter and the pane.Hal Borland
If there were wild strawberries in Eden, and there must have been, Adam was a fool as well as a sinner to taste any other fruit.
Hal Borland
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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There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.
Hal Borland
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Hal Borland
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
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