"Lichens are a successful alliance between a fungus and an alga. Each doing what it does best, and thriving as a result of a natural cooperation. They live as one organism, both inhabiting the same body."

Oregon State University Lichenland

"A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile, as a fungus or a lichen."

Henry David Thoreau

July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"

John Muir

April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914

"I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me."

William Hazlitt

April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

"All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within."

Horace L. Friess

1900-1975

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."

George Washington Carver

January 1864 - January 5, 1943

"The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you ... you can feel it."

Ted Trueblood

June 25, 1913 - September 12, 1982

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

Thomas Jefferson

April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

"Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake."

Rachel Carson

May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964