“Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.”―Gary Snyder DSCF0011.JPG “What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”―E.M. Forster coyote on rock at night (3).JPG “My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”―Claude Monet young buck headed to camera (1).JPG “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”―Henry David Thoreau curious deer in marsh (19).JPG “Nature is the source of all true knowledge.”―Leonardo da Vinci deer passing big tree with vine (4).JPG “A walk in nature walks the soul back home.”―Mary Davis big buck approaches camera b at night (16).JPG “Choose only one master: nature.”―Rembrandt 20210114_200808.jpg “If you want to be happy, be!”―Henry David Thoreau deer near y-branch at night crossing right to left (4).JPG “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”―William Shakespeare DSCF0364-deer-and-fox.jpg “Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.”―Katrina Mayer DSCF0189.JPG “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”―Linda Bronson fox-crossing-adjusted.jpg “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”―Henry David Thoreau backlit fox near water at night (2).JPG “Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”―E.B.White deer near y-branch at night crossing right to left (9).JPG “I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”―Henry David Thoreau fox on log nosing carcass at night (2).JPG “Nature is pleased with simplicity.”―Sir Isaac Newton good close shot of raccoon near y-branch at night (5).JPG “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”―Lao Tzu raccoon on log at night (18).JPG “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”―Chief Seattle raccoons at night (20).JPG “Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.”―Robert Fulghum two raccoons near pine tree at night (18).JPG “Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”―Henry David Thoreau raccoon at night near marshy area (12).JPG “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”―Vincent van Gogh mink or fisher near carcass on log at night (1).JPG “The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”―Henry David Thoreau chipmunk on tree.JPG “I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”―Anne Frank fat squirrel climbing up thin tree (2).JPG “A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors”―Henry David Thoreau mouse on log near marsh at night (18).JPG “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”―Albert Einstein rabbit near y-branch at night (142).JPG “Men argue. Nature acts.”―Voltaire squirrel (1).JPG “We can never have enough of nature.”―Henry David Thoreau squirrel on log with white log (29).JPG “...the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”―John Lennon squirrel.JPG “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”―Frank Lloyd Wright camo man at a distance (4).JPG “Nature is loved by what is best in us.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson light at 2am going up hill (1).JPG “It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.”―John Burnside dogs playing in snow near leanto 2023-03 (2).JPG “Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.”―Henry David Thoreau cat in woods at night (4).JPG “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”―Mahatma Gandhi mystery animal eyeballs camera (6).JPG “Clean air, clean water, open spaces: these should once again be the birthright of every American.”―Richard Nixon 20230312_185038.jpg “Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.”―Henry David Thoreau DSCF0229.JPG “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature, the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”―Rachel Carson DSCF0234.JPG “For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”―Wendell Berry coyote near y-branch just after dusk (3).JPG “We need the tonic of wildness... We can never have enough of nature.”―Henry David Thoreau ―Henry David Thoreau coyote during day (5).JPG “Storms make trees take deeper roots.”―Dolly Parton young deer right next to camera (19).JPG “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”―Alice Walker young buck headed to camera (4).JPG “There is no Wi-Fi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.”―Ralph Smart deer with mangled antlers near marsh (5).JPG “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...”―Edward Abbey deer with weird antler near log (11).JPG “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”―Laura Ingalls Wilder curious doe near log at marshy area (84).JPG “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”―Henry David Thoreau deer in small valley (45).JPG “If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.”―Buddha very young deer approaching camera (1).JPG “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”―Joseph Campbell large buck (2).JPG “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”―Rachel Carson large-buck-and-brian.jpg “All good things are wild and free.”―Henry David Thoreau deer near snowy log (1).JPG “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson camera b two young deer 2022-01-11 813 (16).JPG “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”―Andy Warhol brian-walking-away-from-two-deer-composite.jpg “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.”―Zeno gaunt and patch deer near log misty morning (7).JPG “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”―Frances Hodgson Burnett fox crossing (3).JPG “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson fox at night on right (8).JPG “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”―John Keats fox approaching rabbit near marshy area at night (2).JPG “Wildness is the preservation of the World.”―Henry David Thoreau DSCF0221.JPG “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”―Henri Matisse raccoon digging at base of tree early morning - frame at 0m0s.jpg “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”―Lady Bird Johnson hiker with bags at night (13).JPG “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”―John Muir night hiker - frame at 0m0s.jpg “Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”―Henry David Thoreau night hiker - frame at 0m2s.jpg “We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late.”―Margaret Thatcher dog - frame at 0m0s.jpg