“When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.” IfsThinkingYearsHas BeensRunningWaterFeetConditionsSolutionsFlowRiversUltimateDeeperWoodsHillsStreamsExcessFloodDrainsSwampsSpongesProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemDams Author:Hal Borland
“Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.” YearsHas BeensWaterConditionsEnvironmentalHillsFloodDrainsProblems And SolutionsSolution To A Problem Author:Hal Borland
“The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.” MenYearsEarthTurnsCoursesWindPrideShapesSeasonsTemperTidesUnseenPower Man Author:Hal Borland
“Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” LoveLifeYearsEndsWisdomFunnyChangeExperienceMoving OnResolutionFitnessLife ExperienceNew YearNew BeginningsNew Years EveInstillHappy New YearBest YearNew Year's ResolutionsNew Years ResolutionAnother ChanceNew Year New BeginningNew Year New StartHappy New Year EveNew Years Eve InspirationalHappy New Year InspirationalFunny Happy New YearNew Year New MeOld YearInspirational New YearNew Years Eve LoveNew Years ToastFunny New YearsFunny New Years EveFunny New Years ResolutionYear EndChristian New YearIndian Happy New YearNew Years Holiday Author:Hal Borland
“I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still heard echoes and already saw shadows, on moonlit nights when the coyotes yapped on the hilltops, and on hot summer afternoons when mirages shimmered, dust devils spun across the flats, and towering cumulus clouds sailed like galleons across the vast blueness of the sky. Echoes of remembrance of what men once did there, and visions of what they would do together.” MenYearsStillsTogetherNightVisionSawsHeardSkyGrewSummerGrew UpDevilShadowHotWestCloudsPassingPassingsDustFlatsAfternoonEchoesRemembranceEmergingSpunMiragesCoyotesOld WestHot Summer Author:Hal Borland
“For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.” YearsEndsFallThreeMonthsAutumnThree MonthsFinalitySolsticeEquinoxSumming UpAutumn Equinox Book:An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons Source: An American year: country life and landscapes through the seasons
