"I Go To Nature..."
There is nothing in which the birds
differ more from man than
the way in which they can build
and yet leave a landscape
as it was before.
- Robert Lynd
If future generations are to remember us
with gratitude rather than contempt, we must
leave them more than the miracles of technology.
We must leave them a glimpse of the world
as it was in the beginning, not just
after we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
I go to Nature to be soothed and healed,
and to have my senses put in tune
once more.
- John Burroughs
At first a small line of inconceivable splendour
emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding,
the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the
whole face of nature, vivifying every colour of the
landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth
with glittering light.
- Ann Radcliffe
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend;
you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left…
you cannot love game and hate predators;
you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges;
you cannot build the forest and mine the farm.
The land is one organism.
- "The Round River," Round River
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth
find reserves of strength that will endure
as long as life lasts.
- Rachel Carson
A true conservationist is a man who knows
that the world is not given by his fathers
but borrowed from his children.
- John James Audubon
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you
as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness
into you… while cares will drop off
like autumn leaves.
- John Muir
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen,
among the beauties and mysteries of the earth
are never alone or weary of life.
- Rachel Carson
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,
to skin and exhaust the land instead of
using it so as to increase its usefulness,
will result in undermining in the days
of our children the very property
which we ought by right
to hand down to them
amplified and
developed.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams,
the brooks for the fishers of song.
- Sam Walter Foss
I had no idea that nature made so much noise.
- Richard Powers
The forest is the poor man's overcoat.
- New England Proverb