Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy

Everything in nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no seven wonders of the world…there are seven million
- Walt Streightiff

Everyone goes into the forest;
some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.
-Vladimir Horowitz

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A naturalist in a hurry never learns anything.
- Gerald Durrell

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God that I am alive.
- Emerson

To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace.
-  Terry Tempest Williams

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
- Claude Monet

Colors are the smiles of nature.
- Leigh Hunt

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
- E.O. Wilson