Thursday, February 12, 2009

Quotes: May (1)

May 120 "April is promises and tentative beginnings, but May is achievement." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year.

May 120 "May is apple blossoms and lilacs, and if any other month can surpass that combination we have yet to learn its name." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year.

May 120 "Lawns grow like mad in May, and the song of the mower is heard throughout the land." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year.

May 122 "But in May you can go outdoors, out where there are trees and grass and open sky and wild flowers and wild birds, and know without asking that you are in the midst of truth…don’t even have to define it, because it is there, obvious." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year. I don't know if the right word is "truth." I think it's satisfaction with the way things are. RayS.

May 125 "May in the country…is natural force as simple as the opening of a bud and as complex as the vast spread of chlorophyll in the countless leaves, even in the infinite blades of grass." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year.

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