Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
More from: Hal Borland
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. -
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. -
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. -
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. -
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
More quotes by Hal Borland
- Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but 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 forth faith rather than reason.
- 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.
- Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- 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.
- You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.