“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From the Archives
“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.”
― Carolyn Wells
More Coreopsis
“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
Oakleaf Fleabane
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Snowy Egret
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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
