Hal Borland Quotes

When we come up upon a wall, it matters. We have to plan around it. It's a mitigating factor if you're trying to enter or cross from point A to point B.

Straight ahead you can't go very far.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

A blocked path also offers guidance.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow.

I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.

Obstruction takes time.

I was born in '57, so during the winters when I was growing up, we were ice skating in people's yards, and school got cancelled sometimes for snow days - I have these good memories.

In Europe, I was just a little guy... the winters in the mountains were very nasty.

I been around negativity all my life. To do something positive, it's a beautiful thing.

When you get one blocked and another partially blocked, you've got to see if you're hitting them low or what.

I believe it is only when one comes out of adversity, that one starts to see real beauty.