Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy

When ere wee froggie wakes,
en struggles outa the muck, gaspin
fer breth, clingin ta sticks en reeds,
suckin up warm sun en at lass
calls out ta ‘nother wee froggie,
“Peeeeeeeep!, tiz spring, me thinks,
en time fer fun en frollik!

- Anonymous

Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same. She casts the same thoughts into troops of forms, as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral. Beautifully shines a spirit through the bruteness and toughness of matter.

- Emerson

Birds link themselves to your memory of seasons and places,
so that a song, a glean of color,
set going a sequence of delightful reminisces in your mind.

- John Burroughs

But while the earth has slumbered,
all the air has been alive with feathery flakes descending.

- Henry David Thoreau

Always remember to play after every storm.

- Matty

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

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never saw a disconnected tree. They grip the ground as though they like it, and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering in all directions with every wing, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day and through space heaven knows how fast!
- John Muir

Perpetually now, we search and bicker and disagree. The eternal form eludes us — the shape we conceive as ours. Perhaps the old road through the marsh should tell us. We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no image except Life, and life is mulitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.
- Loren Eiseley

Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her–
Incapable of escaping and incapable of delving deeper into her.
Without invitation or warning, she brings us into the rhythm of
her dance and sweeps onward with us, until we are exhausted
and fall from her arms.
- J.W.Goethe