"Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?"
Solomon Short
"It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic."
Terry Pratchett
"...She doesn't have to choose between being gentle or being fierce. Both exist in nature and both exist in her. That's ok. She'll know to nourish them both and when applicable, use each unapologetically."
Steve Maraboli
"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
Anonymous
"Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities."
Daniel Suarez
"I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets."
Hamlin Garland
"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."
L.M. Montgomery
"Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history."
Callum Roberts
"Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks."
Joë Bousquet
"...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been taken over by civilization, and there is no more room for Indians, Pirates, and Wild Boys?"
Christopher Daniel Mechling
"I must have flowers, always, and always."
Claude Monet
"I’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course."
Tom Upton
"Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me."
David Mitchell
"The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more."
Alan Kinross
"I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand."
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