“The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”— Mary Oliver
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”— John Lubbock
“An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.”— David Attenborough
“Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.”— Joy Adamson
“I had always lived with animals, and my deep feeling for them was part of my nature.”— Joy Adamson
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”— Edward Abbey
“Dinosaurs are the most head-shakingly bizarre, awe-inspiring, and monstrous creatures ever to have walked the earth.”— Robert T. Bakker
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”— H. E. Bates
“The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.”— H. E. Bates
“And the willows, the myriad willows, were expressing it. It was the whisper of the entire landscape.”— Algernon Blackwood
“As I laye a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, Merrie sang the Birde as she sat upon the spraye!”— Richard Harris Barham
“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth...”— Edward Abbey