"The kingdom of plants has a king, the Giant Sequoia or California Bigtree. It is, as a race, the oldest and mightiest of living things. Not even in past geologic times, apparently, were greater trees than Sequoia gigantea. Only the Bigtree's closest of kin, the Redwood of the California coast, approaches it in longevity and girth. In grace and height, indeed, the Coast Redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, is a queen among trees, a fit mate for the craggier grandeur of the Bigtree of the Sierra Nevada."
- from A Natural History of Western Trees (1950)

- Donald Culross Peattie (American author, botanist, and naturalist; b. 1898 - d. 1964)


Quotations: Science, Conservation, Ecology, Forestry, Grace, Strength, Life, Natural Resources, Trees

Quotations and Proverbs: Land, Conservation, Ecology, Legacy, Natural Resources, Proverbs, Real Estate

"We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

- Native American Proverb

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway." - from Tarantula (1971)
- Bob Dylan (American singer/songwriter, b. 1941)

"The Redwood, the ever-living Sequoia, sempervirens, is the tallest tree in the world. Not just occasionally taller, in individual specimens growing under unprecedentedly favorable conditions, but taller as a whole, as a race, a titan race. Also it produces logs with the greatest diameter amongst all timber trees. Only the Redwood's big brother, the California Bigtree, Sequoia gigantea of the Sierra Nevada is ever greater in girth, but Gigantea is not today in the class of prime timber tree."
- from A Natural History of Western Trees (1950)

- Donald Culross Peattie (American author, botanist, and naturalist; b. 1898 - d. 1964)


Quotations: Science, Age, Conservation, Ecology, Forestry, Life, Natural Resources, Trees

Quotations: Land, Agriculture, Conservation, Ecology, Legacy, Natural Resources, Politics, Real Estate, Soil

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." - from the Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law (February 26, 1937)

- Franklin D. Roosevelt (Thirty-second President of the United States of America; b. 1882 - d. 1945)

"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on."
- Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, b. 540 B.C. - d. 480 B.C.)

"From snow, whether baked or boiled, you will get nothing but water."
- Spanish Proverb

"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."
- William Shakespeare
(English author, poet, and and playwright; b. 1564 - d. 1616)
from King Henry VI, Part II.

“Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian biochemist and Nobel Prize recipient, b. 1893 – d. 1986)

"He cannot find water in the sea."
- Spanish Proverb

"Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep."
- William Maxwell (Scottish nobleman, 5th Earl of Nithsdale; b. 1676 - d. 1744)

"He expects to find water at the first stroke of the spade."
- Spanish Proverb

Quotations: Water, Land, Agriculture, Disposition, Heart, Growth, Literature, Love, Virtue, Duty, Natural Resources

"There is in every human heart,
Some not completely barren part,
Where seeds of truth and love might grow,
And flowers of generous virtue flow;
To plant, to watch, to water there,
This be our duty, be our care.
-from Matins and Vespers: With Hymns and Occasional Devotional Pieces (1827)

- Sir John Bowring (English author, poet, political economist, and 4th governor of Hong Kong; b. 1792 - d. 1872)