The Quotable Nature Lover: A Nature Conservancy Book

The Quotable Nature Lover: A Nature Conservancy Book





The Quotable Nature Lover will provide nature lovers-birders, hikers, fishermen, gardeners, backpackers, philosophers, adventurers-with hours of reading pleasure, endless inspiration to get out and hit the trails, and plenty of food for thought during time spent in the great outdoors. The quotations in this book were assembled in the spirit of The Nature Conservancy's work: conservation and respect for the land. As such, it is an ideal gift for anyone who loves nature and cares about the natural world-and a great companion for those days when they can't be in the great outdoors.

Included are quotes from:

* Edward Abbey * Ansel Adams * Basho * Black Elk * Lord Byron * Rachel Carson * Willa Cather * Charles Darwin * Emily Dickinson * Robert Frost * Ernest Hemingway * Homer * John F. Kennedy * Barry Lopez * Norman Maclean * Margaret Mead * John Muir * Georgia O'Keefe * Theodore Roosevelt * William Shakespeare * Wallace Stegner * Henry David Thoreau * Oscar Wilde

"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes." --Charles A. Lindbergh

"It is not down on a map, true places never are." --Herman Melville

"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring." --Aldo LeopoldJohn A. Murray, author or editor of 30 other books on nature, edited this slim book of quotations for The Nature Conservancy, which will benefit from its sales. Murray provides brief essays introducing the 10 chapters that comprise it: "Beauty," "Seasons," "Solitude," "Community," etc. All the usual suspects are here: Aldo Leopold, Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Shakespeare, and nearly 200 others. Their most famous wisdoms are here too: "As soon as we take one thing by itself, we find it hitched to everything in the universe" (John Muir), "The land was ours before we were the land's" (Robert Frost). Other quotations are less familiar and, in some cases, perhaps should have remained so.

This book, when at its best, lives up to its billing and provides pithy quotations that quicken and inspire thought. Others are short on pith and tend to ramble on. The 35 quotations in the "Beauty" chapter, for example, are fairly evenly divided between the provocative and the prosaic. Perhaps this pot should have simmered longer on the stove. The stew might have been more hearty. --Pete Holloran









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