“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Grass-leaved Arrowhead
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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
Snowy Egret
Happy New Year!
Invasive Species
The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
For Luke
“We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.” Henry Ford
Two-Fisted Nest Building
“Life’s as kind as you let it be.”
― Charles Bukowski
Wood Stork
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski
