The Enduring Pattern: One Man's Search, in His Own Countryside, for Answers to the Puzzle of Existence

by Hal Borland, Milton Glaser (Illustrator)

In this book Hal Borland explores cosmic things in the world of nature; the green landscape of forest and meadow, the insects, and the flesh and blood of the animal kingdom. "The clock of all time may be in the stars, but the clock of the year, and especially of Spring and of all the life we know, is in the earth whence all that life sprang. It is in the radish seed and the onion bulb and the root of the dandelion. There it is, ticking away the days and hours. It is Spring, and down the road the peepers, the tree frogs that hibernated in the muck of the bogland all Winter, are shrilling that they are alive and life is urgent. There they are, and here am I. We are sharers of life."

All, part of the Enduring Pattern.

247 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Harold Glen Borland was a nature journalist. During World War II he wrote radio programs for the government and served as special magazine correspondent. He had written several documentary movies, two volumes of poetry, a volume of essays, has collaborated on a play, and has contributed many non-fiction articles, short stories and novelettes to leading magazines here and abroad.

Mr. Borland was graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism. He also attended the University of Colorado and received a Litt.D. from there in 1944.

Reviews

[Satoita · Rating 3 out of 5]

An easy read. Basically this is a collection of questions the author has pondered. It's much like listening to your elder speak. Some information is outdated, of course, but it does spark the desire to seek more answers, as humans are known to do.