In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. –Albert Einstein

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. –Robert Louis Stevenson

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books. –John Lubbock

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel. -Theodore Roosevelt