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

Quote by Hal Borland

Topics: Nature Quotes

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before...

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before...

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high...

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high...

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

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

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

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least,...

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least,...

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies,...

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies,...

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which...

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which...

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to...

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to...

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make...

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make...

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of...

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of...

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies,...

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies,...

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you...

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you...

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed,...

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed,...

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Now is the winter of our discontent

Now is the winter of our discontent

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will...

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will...

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower