Quotes About Nature

Redwoods State Park, we'd been

When a skunk sprays, a lot of bystanders have to deal with the stink.

ORANGE LAKE, NEW YORK SIXTY MILES NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY STARTING TO GASP AS she climbed the increasingly steep slope of the tangled hiking trail, Mary Catherine was about to take a breather when the tree line opened. Glancing out over the open ridge, she immediately halted in her tracks, as what was left of her breath was suddenly taken.

wasps are as big as birds and have definite anger-management issues.

on Staten Island.

Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, eighteen thousand acres of rugged wilderness.

The natural gifts of this place, aided by law, politics, and science, could create a stronger, more elite population.

walking food source.

ground, impaled on the trunk of a tree that has been shaved down to the point of

Even wolves have moments of kindness.

His sneakers smacked against tree trunks. Bark raked the skin on his hands and face raw. Branches caught at his feathers, and he felt some get yanked out, but he didn't even wince. It felt good, the pain. He wanted more.

after a torrential rain. Acadia and her

The laws of physics are totally different from human laws, because human laws are decisions," Ellie says. "They aren't facts.

dark roads in the Catskills

on Lake Street.

I came here I paid a visit to Eagle

Mare's tails and mackerel scales.

throughout the open space, and a two-story fireplace. The bedrooms all have mountain vistas, and the patio has a multimillion-dollar view of a great, green, tree-studded lawn. Edmund Washburn, a big teddy bear of a man, had fired up the

HAC: Human-Animal Conflict.

through woodlots and agricultural fields.

Ready, guys?" said Mom. "Let's make the most of this. I hear the Gunkledunks are beautiful this time of year!" Georgia stacked up her bills into one huge pile. "Can we stop at the bank first?" she

His first time in South Africa, and there's a desolate beauty here, if one has the time to appreciate it.

thick with woods. "Who's

turned to watch the hawk he'd pointed out. "Yeah