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.

Quote by Hal Borland

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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...

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

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

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

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

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...

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

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...

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

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,...

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,...

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,...

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...