“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.”
― Carolyn Wells
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Month: March 2019
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“There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Thursday
“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife, are in fact plans to protect man.”
― Stewart L. Udall
Leavensworth Tickseed
“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.”
― Edward Abbey
Grass-leaved Arrowhead
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Narrow Leaved Blue Eye Grass
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
― E.O. Wilson
Blackberry
“Men say they know many things;
But lo! they have taken wings, —
The arts and sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that any body knows”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Oakleaf Fleabane
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Four Petal St. John’s Wort
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Picture This by Frank 