Dare Quote by Washington Irving

“All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers. • To understand many things you must reach out of your own condition.”

— Mary Oliver

“The only solution was education, offering the chance of experiencing at first hand the land and traditions of their forebears and proving that one…

— Kuki Gallmann

“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so…

— Michael Pollan

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Thither he bent his way, determined there to rest at noon; and entered soon the shade high roofed, and walks beneath, and alleys brown,…

— John Milton

“Inversnaid This darksome burn, horseback brown, His rollrock highroad roaring down, In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam Flutes and low…

— Gerald Manley Hopkins

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the…

— Joseph Conrad

“He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves,…

— Michael Montoure

“Nature. He disliked its prickly stems, its bramble and bush, the obstinate precision of its cycles, its preconfigured calendar, the coded tapestry of its…

— Viken Berberian

“Crossing the prairie he had learned something that he knew to be a contradiction: that a constant sound—like the slithering of wind-blown grass—can become…

— Mark Warren