“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them.” – John Ruskin

“I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.” – Edward Abbey

“Nature does nothing in vain.” – Aristotle

“There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.” – Calvin Coolidge

“There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Happy 140th birthday Yellowstone National Park.  I love ya!!

(click on image to view the panoramic view)

“I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children” – Wendell Berry

“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit” – Ansel Adams

Happy 110th birthday Mr. Adams!!

“Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal” – Elizabeth Aston

“No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.” – Ansel Adams

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.” – Lucretius

“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” – Edvard Munch

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir

“The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.” – Joseph Wood Krutch

“When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.” – President Lyndon B. Johnson