Hal Borland

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Hal Borland (May 14, 1900 - February 22, 1978) was a well-known American author. He was born in Sterling, Colorado and studied at the University of Colorado and Columbia University. He eventually became a journalist for publications such as the Denver Post, The New York Times, and Audubon Magazine. Books that he wrote included High, Wide, and Lonesome, This Hill, This Valley and The Seventh Winter. His 1963 When the Legends Die, about the struggles of a young Ute Indian to live apart from white society, has become a young adult classic, and was made into a 1972 film.

Borland died in Sharon, Connecticut at the age of 77.

Harold Glen Borland was and still is one of the most amazing outdoor writers and has influenced many future naturalists around the world. He made a dream come to a reality and he did it so easy it seems. If anything Harold did leave the world with some off the most important and most interesting information that we have of the Plains in the early 1900's. He was married to Barbra boland and the lived on a 100-acre (0.40 km²) farm in connecticut, it was a well needed move for Hal who had been in New York a lot writing Nature Editorials for the New York Times. Hal did love the city but he also missed be close to nature. As Hal said himself that A man can love the city and a man can just love nature, but I choose to be in the middle. Harold is remembered and missed by many people. I hope whoever reads this that you realize that Hal borland is not very important on the internet and does not have his own holiday no, but my fellow readers Hal is alive still in the world around you. Sit and listen when you are out in nature and listen to the grass brush up against each other on a windy day my friend just listen and you will know Exactly what Hal Borland felt and exactly the message he wanted the world and you to know. Like Hal borland said. "Man is Nature, Nature is Man." In my studies to help people deal with depression I tell them this. I tell them the best way is to get out with nature. Everyone needs to connect with nature if they are to connect with themselves which is proven in this saying "Man is Nature, Nature is Man. Neither can live without the other." -Dr. Voss, Ph. D., Sociology.