Hal Borland Mean Quotations

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

A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.