"Hal Borland" was a well-known United States/American author and journalist. In addition to writing several novels and books about the outdoors, he wrote "outdoor editorials" for The New York Times for more than 30 years, from 1941 to 1978.

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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

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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.

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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

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For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

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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.

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