“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” - Rachel Carson #RachelCarson #nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #scaoe #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest

“We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves.” - Robert MacFarlane #RobertMacFarlane #nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #stunday #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest #wetlands #storm

"The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence." - Wallace Stegner #WallaceStwgner #StegnerSaturday #nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest #autumn

"To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope." - Wendell Berry #WendellBerry #ForestFriday #nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest

"A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it." - Aldo Leopold #AldoLeopold #naturewriting #nature #naturephotography #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest #sunrise

“Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.” — Henry David Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #naturewriting #nature #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #river #autumn #midwest #trees

“The woods have their own music, which teaches the soul what words cannot.” - Henry David Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #ThoreauTuesdays #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #photographersofbluesky #midwest #forest #river #trees

"The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all." - Wendell Berry #WendellBerry #naturewriting #naturephotography #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest #rurallife

"Without any remaining wilderness we are committed wholly... to a headlong drive into our technological termite-life." - Wallace Stegner #WallaceStegner #StegnerSunday #naturewriting #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #stunday

“At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.” -Sigurd Olson #SigurdOlson #SigurdSaturday #naturewriting #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest #Mississippi #river #sunrise

“Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.” - Robert Frost #RobertFrost #FrostFriday #ForestFriday #naturewriting #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest

“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man.” - Henry David Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #ThoreauThursday #naturewriting #naturephotography #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #midwest #river

“Be still and listen to the voices that belong to the stream banks and the trees and the open fields." - Wendell Berry #WendellBerry #naturewriting #naturephotography #landscapephotography #landscape #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #river #nature #wildwisdom

“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures.” - John Muir #JohnMuir #MuirMonday #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturewriting #forest #river #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest

“Time is kept and curated in different ways by trees, and so it is experienced in different ways when one is among them." - Robert MacFarlane #RobertMacFarlane #naturewriting #nature #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #stunday #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #trees #forest #midwest

“In September dawns I hardly breathe – I am an image in a ball of glass. The world is suspended there, and I in it.” - Nan Shepherd #NanShepherd #ShepherdSaturday #naturewriting #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #forest #midwest

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” - John Muir #JohnMuir #ForestFriday #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #forest #naturewriting #nature

“A lake is... earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” - Henry David Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #ThoreauThursday #naturewriting #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #lake #forest

“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” - Wendell Berry #WendellBerry #WendellWednesday #naturewriting #scape #landscaoe #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #wetlands #autumn #midwest

“I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him.” - Henry David Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #ThoreauTuesdays #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #naturewriting #naturewisdom #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #lakes #forest #midwest

“Landscape was here long before we were even dreamed. It watched us arrive.” - Robert MacFarlane #RobertMacFarlane #MacFarlaneMondays #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #naturewriting #lake #forest #mountain #eastcoastkin

“Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity.” - Wallace Stegner #WallaceStegner #StegnerSundays #stunday #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #naturewriting #naturewisdom

“Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.” – Henry David Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #naturewriting #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #river #midwest #drifless

“When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” – Aldo Leopold #AldoLeopold #naturewriting #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #forestfriday #midwest #eastcoastkin #nature

"Be still and listen to the voices that belong to the stream banks and the trees and the open fields." - Wendell Berry #WendellBerry #WendellWednesdays #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #naturewriting #nature #eastciastkin #photographersofbluesky #midwest #river

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” - Henry David Thoreau #HenryDavidThoreau #ThoreauTuesdays #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #river #forest #photilographersofbluesky #naturewriting

"In our present attitude the natural world remains a commodity to be bought and sold, not a sacred reality to be venerated." - Thomas Merton #ThomasMerton #stunday#nature #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest #blueskyartshow

"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong." - Wendell Berry #WendellBerry #naturewriting #nature #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #forestfriday ##forest #river #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest

“Low-anchored cloud, Newfoundland air, Fountain-head and source of rivers, Dew-cloth, dream-drapery, And napkin spread by fays; Drifting meadow of the air.” - Henry David Thoreau #ThoreauTuesdays #landscapephotography #landscape #naturewriting #nature #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #midwest

"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties." - John Muir #JohnMuir #MuirMonday #naturewriting #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #LakeSuperior #wildwisdom

"Wilderness is a part of the geography of hope." - Wallace Stegner #WallaceStegner #stunday #naturewriting #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #wilderness #mountains #missouririver #montana

“You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns.” - Wallace Stegner #WallaceStegner #StegnerSaturdays #naturewriting #naturephotography #photography #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #moyntains #montana

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” - John Muir #JohnMuir #nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #photography #forestfriday #forestfridays #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #wildwisdom #wilderness #forest #blackhills

“How important is a constant intercourse with nature... to the preservation of moral and intellectual health.” - Henry David Thoreau #ThoreauThursdays #naturewriting #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #prairie #midwest #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin

"Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." - Wendell Berry #WendellBerry #naturewriting #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #river #forests #midwest #eastcoastkin #blueskyphotography

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same." – Ralph Waldo Emerson #RalphWaldoEmerson #nature #naturewriting #scape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #clouds #sky #midwest #easrcoastkin #blueskyphotography #blueskyart #photography

"Keep close to Nature’s heart… Wash your spirit clean." - John Muir #MuirMonday #nature #naturephotography #photography #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #blueskyphotography #blueskyartshow #river #wildflowers #eastcoastkin #midwest

"Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity." - Wallace Stegner #WallaceStegner #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #nature #naturewriting #stunday #blueskyphotography #midwest #travel #eastcoastkin #trees #wetlands #sunrise

“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.” - Wendell Berry #WendellBerry #naturewriting #scape #skyscape #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #blueskyphotography #eastcoastkin #river #sky #travel #midwest

"The river has great wisdom and whispers its secrets to the hearts of men.” — Mark Twain #naturewisdom #nature #naturewriting #naturephotography #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #river #forestfriday #forest #eastcoastkin #blueskyphotography

"Let men tread gently through nature.” - Henry David Thoreau #ThoreauThursday #nature #naturewriting #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #prairie #midwest #photography #

"But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself." - Rachel Carson #RachelCarson #nature #natutewriting #naturephotography #scape #landscape #landscapephotogrqphy #photography #river #midwest #eastcoastkin #forest

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth." - Henry David Thoreau #naturewisdom #ThoreauTuesday #naturewriting #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #midwest #scape #eastcoastkin #blueskynature

“Walking as a form of knowing, landscape as a lens through which to imagine and reconsider the world.” - Robert MacFarlane #naturewisdom #MacFarlaneMonday #naturewriting #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #scape #wildflowers #nativeplants #prairie #eastcoastkin

"The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence." - Wallace Stegner #naturewisdom #StegnerSundays #naturewriting #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #scapes #river #forest #eastcoastkin #blueskyphotography

"Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future." - Wallace Stegner #StegnerSaturday #naturewriting #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landacape #scapes #eastcoastkin #forest #river

WILDFIRE SMOKE over WISCONSIN at SUNRISE "Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy.” - Wendell Berry #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #photography #forestfriday #eastcoastkin

"The world has become a heap of fragments. But every single splinter remains precious, and from each fragment there flashes a ray of the mystery of its origin." H.U. von Balthasar #wisdom #vonBalthasar #creation #landscapephotography #landscape #photography #theology #scapes #eastcoastkin

“Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” - Wendell Berry #naturewisdom #WendellWednesday #naturewriting #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #landscape #scapes #photography #eastcoastkin

“Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf.” - Henry David Thoreau #naturewisdom #ThoreauTuesday #naturewriting #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #scapes #photography #blueskyphotography #eastcoastkin #leaf #forest #river