"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

"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

1090 - August 20, 1153

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

Horace L. Friess

1900-1975

"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