Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

I believe that nowadays we are in the process of establishing a new relationship between humanity, creativity and nature.

Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places...

Nature can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who don’t need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected from themselves. In society, women are referred to as “the fairer sex”. But...

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

A person who can hide his tears but can never hide his smile is a Joker.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might I am not...

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one...

Going to the woods is going home.

What Do the Trees Know?What do the trees know? To bend when all the wild winds blow. Roots are deep and time is slow. All we grasp we must let go.What do the trees know?...

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

Snake’s LullabyBrother, sister, flick your tongueand taste the flakes of autumn sun.Use these last few hours of goldto travel, travel toward the cold.Before your coils grow stiff and dull,your heartbeat slows to winter’s lull,seek the...

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from...

Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day...

Dream of the Tundra SwanDusk felland the cold came creeping,cam prickling into our hearts.As we tucked beaksinto feathers and settled for sleep,our wings knew.That night, we dreamed the journey:ice-blue sky and the yodel of flight,the...

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Big Brown MooseI’m a big brown moose,I’m a rascally moose,I’m a moose with a tough, shaggy hide;and I kick and I prancein a long-legged dancewith my moose-mama close by my side.I shrug off the coldand...

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive....

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

The international nature of the thing is totally essential. We wouldn’t have been able to build a space station ourselves.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!

A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden.

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation...

I’m afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

We don’t stop hiking because we grow old – we grow old because we stop hiking

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies...

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used...

A lofty breeze rushed by, threatening to brush him over the ridge. He looked with hardened eyes off into the East as the first sign of the sun broke the horizon with a distinct flash....

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain

And we were taught to play golf. Golf epitomizes the tame world. On a golf course nature is neutered. The grass is clean, a lawn laundry that wipes away the mud, the insect, the bramble,...

I blinked and the images were gone. But I remembered how the laugh and the howl and the splash would ripple and echo in the stillness of our lake, and I wondered if ripples and...