"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

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

Ted Trueblood

June 25, 1913 - September 12, 1982