A Quotation from Hal Borland

I can report now that grass grows, flowers bloom, birds sing. I can report that the sun rises and sets, the moon keeps its own schedule, the stars follow patterns they have followed since man first saw them in the night sky. I know these truths. Lesser truths will take more learning, but I can live with what I now know.
     HAL BORLAND (1900-1978)
     Quoted in Thoughts from the Mountains (Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)

To read an article about Hal Borland, click here.

Is Jack Frost Painting the Leaves?

1. Excelsior: Jack Frost is Painting the Leaves: "The first song I remember from my childhood was sung by my mother. I remember, it seemed like some miraculous transformation -- my mother..."

2. FIRST FROST

     First frost often comes in late September. If light, it does no harm to the color of the trees. Hard frost kills the color before it really comes. The old myth of Jack Frost painting the leaves is all wrong, contrary to fact. We have our best color in a mild, dry Autumn.

     HAL BORLAND

     in his "Handbook to the Country" Beyond Your Doorstep (1962)

Quotation: Hal Borland on the end of August

The Summer wanes,

well before the Equinox.

HAL BORLAND (1900-1978)

in his "Handbook to the Country"

Beyond Your Doorstep (1962)

"Year's End" by Richard Wilbur : The Poetry Foundation

Read the poem Year’s End by Richard Wilbur : The Poetry Foundation

As American author Hal Borland (1900-1978) wrote, "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

Richard Wilbur

American poet and translator;

poet laureate (1987-88)