“June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.” WayLongEndsLightYoungNatureSunFireFiveLandMonthsMountainSpringRedMarkBluePlantCaliforniaFallenBrownGrayYellowStemCoastFogJuneOaksRobesBloomingHazeMustard Author:Gretel Ehrlich
“Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.” KnowsWayGivingTwoSidesNatureColorExpressionGreenStemLeafsPurpleTwo SidesMonotonousHuePaletteBronze Author:Mabel Osgood Wright
“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” LoveLyingPeaceNatureAnimalViewsAttitudeMoralMankindTestsMercyFundamentalsPetBuriedVeganAnimal RightsStemDeep ThoughtAnimal CompassionAnimal AbuseAnimal SufferingCompassion Towards AnimalsDebaclesTreatment Of Animals Author:Milan Kundera
“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.” RealLightCoursesNatureRealizingTreeRootsPlantBranchesStemMagicianBarkFoliagePlants And Life Book:A Life in Photography Source: A Life in Photography
“I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.” WellsNatureFlowerLoversHatedFairyTallStemSplendidLawnsIvyDaisiesDandelions Book:The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist Source: The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist
“Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. The security, progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security, progress and welfare of all mankind.” MenMadeLawNatureResponsibilityProgressGroupsMankindSecurityWelfareStemNature Of Man Author:Lewis B. Schwellenbach