“There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way.”— Robert Krulwich, phenomena.nationalgeographic.com
“I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience…”— Nic Pizzolatto, Rust Cohle, Matthew McConaughey, imdb.com
“I love just being with family. Just being outside in nature. You know, just the little things.”— Mary Padian, youtube.com
“From the Leaves, and Downs, and Beards of Plants, we come at last to the Seeds; and here indeed seems to be the Cabinet of Nature, wherein are laid up its Jewels.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“By this the Earth it self, which lyes so neer us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every little particle of its matter; we now behold almost as great a variety of Creatures, as we were able before to reckon up in the whole Universe it self.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“And in Physical Enquiries, we must endevour to follow Nature in the more plain and easie ways she treads in the most simple and uncompounded bodies, to trace her steps, and be acquainted with her manner of walking there, before we venture our selves into the multitude of meanders she has in bodies o…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“The hill road wet with rain In the sun would not gleam Like a winding stream If we trod it not again.'”— Edward Thomas, amazon.com
“People were evidently looking for something in the mountains they believed they had lost a long time ago.”— Robert Seethaler, amazon.com
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“The destruction of the earth is due in part. . .to a failure of the imagination or to its eclipse by systems of accounting that can’t count what matters. . .so the task of naming & describing is an essential one.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.”— Wallace Stegner, amazon.com
“'crown shyness' - phenomenon whereby individual tree crowns avoid overlap or touch, forming striking canopy patterns.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.”— W. H. Auden, amazon.com
“A well-kempt forest begs Our Lady's grace; Someone is not disgusted, or at least Is laying bets upon the human race Retaining enough decency to last; The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about a country's soul.”— W. H. Auden, amazon.com
“Two trunks like bodies, bodies like twined trunks . . . . Truly each other’s, they have embraced so long Their barks have met and wedded in one flow".”— Thom Gunn, amazon.com
“'ghost gear' - lost & abandoned fishing equipment in seas and oceans, totalling 10% of all plastic waste in the ocean & very harmful to marine life.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.”— Edward Thomas, amazon.com