Covering Quote by Michael Kenna

I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters…

— Howard Zahniser

When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact…

— Saint Augustine

“The human spirit needs places where nature has not been re-arranged by the hand of man.”

— Anonymous

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia…

— Charles Lyell

“People", Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls to shelter…

— Brandon Sanderson

For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These plethoras…

— Victor Hugo

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None…

— N. Scott Momaday

“From the start, our environment shapes who we are. We don't always see it, but we are similarly influenced by what the people around…

— C.B. Lansdell

When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies…

— Michael Faraday

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,

— Maurice Herzog