There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness, and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as well as bowers and grassy banks.


Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country, Chapter 13 (p. 303), Alfred A. Knopf. 1962

Hal Borland Quotes

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness, and...

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness, and...

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness, and...

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness, and...