Nature-writing Quotes by Ann Zwinger

Flies are the price we pay for summer.

— Ann Zwinger

There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry…

— Ann Zwinger

“This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes,…

— Ann Zwinger

A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity…

— Ann Zwinger

The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the…

— Ann Zwinger

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

— Ann Zwinger

I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within…

— Ann Zwinger