June 3, 2011
In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
— Aldo Leopold
June 2, 2011
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
— Author unknown
June 1, 2011
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
— Al Bernstein
May 31, 2011
Except for children (who don’t know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spend time wondering why nature is the way it is.
— Carl Sagan
May 30, 2011
The more we are separated from nature, the unhappier we get.
— Author unknown
May 29, 2011
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
— Mary Webb
May 28, 2011
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
— Robert Browning
May 27, 2011
We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don’t love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it, the happier we are.
— Louise Dickinson Rich
May 26, 2011
It’s a beautiful day, don’t let it get away.
— Author unknown
May 25, 2011
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
— Georgia O’Keefe
May 24, 2011
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken over-civilized people are going to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
— John Muir
May 23, 2011
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
— Ansel Adams
May 22, 2011
Unless someone you like cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.
— Dr. Seuss
May 21, 2011
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
— Jimmy Carter
May 20, 2011
There are unknown forces within Nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she leads them to us; she shows us those forms which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
— August Rodin
May 19, 2011
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons; it is to grow in the open air and eat and sleep with the Earth.
— Walt Whitman
May 18, 2011
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
— Charles A. Lindbergh
May 17, 2011
Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.
— Mahatma Gandhi
May 16, 2011
The Wilderness holds answers to questions man has not learned to ask. — Nancy Newhall
May 15, 2011
Eventually we will realize that we destroy the environment, we will destroy ourselves.
— Jonas Salk
May 14, 2011
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
May 13, 2011
See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.
— Archibald Macleish
May 12, 2011
The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.
— Edwin Way Teale
May 11, 2011
Nature is never finished.
— Robert Smithson
May 10, 2011
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
— Minoru Yamasaki
May 9, 2011
I have my own views about Nature’s methods, thouogh I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his opinions about the Milky Way.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
May 8, 2011
The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
— Kenneth Patton
May 7, 2011
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
— Evelyn Underhill
May 6, 2011
Science has never dreamed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
— W. Earl Hall
May 5, 2011
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
— e. e. cummings
May 4, 2011
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
— Oliver Goldsmith
May 3, 2011
For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear.
If not the first, the fairest of the year;
For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours,
And Nature’s ready pencil paints the flowers.
When they short reign is past, the feverish sun
The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on.
— John Dryden
May 2, 2011
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
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