"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees." ― Hal Borland Topic(s): Patience More From Hal Borland "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." "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." "You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet." More In Patience "Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear."― Peter Stuyvesant "Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."― Marguerite Gardiner "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."― Edith Sitwell