Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy

An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

- Henry David Thoreau

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

- Reginald Heber

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

- Aldo Leopold

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

-John Muir

I have my own views about nature’s methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his opinions upon the milkyway.

- Sherlock Holmes

Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.

- unknown

There is something infinitely
healing in the repeated refrain of nature –
the assurance that dawn comes after night,
and spring after winter.
- Rachel Carson

How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

- Antoine de Saint Exupery

Trees dance – even on the stillest days.

- Kees Wagenvoord

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

- Robert Lynd