"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks.  Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough to pay attention to the story."

-Linda Hogan

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The enjoyment of solitude... and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutly essential to happiness."

-Robert Marshall

"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hands of man."

-Unknown

"Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people who are alive today, but the property of unknown generations,  whose belongings we have no right to squander."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes I do get to places when God's ready to have someone click the shutter."

-Ansel Adams

"Everybody need beauty as well as bread, places to play on and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength."

"A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized."

-Edwin Land