

“Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”
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“I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won’t rain.”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won’t rain.”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― The Sound of Mountain Water
― The Sound of Mountain Water
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
― Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest
― Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest
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