[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere. Hal Borland More Quotes by Hal Borland More Quotes From Hal Borland He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history. Hal Borland historical west sun As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this. Hal Borland views morning beautiful Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves. Hal Borland certain nature looks Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight. Hal Borland sight giving people The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter. Hal Borland environmental nature unhappy Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years. Hal Borland environmental water years I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. 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. Hal Borland man wisdom faith time
