Animal Quote by Charles Darwin

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote…

— Ansel Adams

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it…

— William Vogt

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after…

— Anton Chekhov

“David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot cards seemed…

— Rebecca Solnit

Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the…

— Antoine Lavoisier

In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the…

— Pierre Louis Maupertuis

“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and…

— Henry David Thoreau

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

— Monty Don

“Imagine a skilled botanist accompanied by someone like myself who is largely ignorant of botany taking part in a field trip into the Australian…

— Alan F. Chalmers

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

— Washington Irving