The Quotable Nature Lover: A Nature Conservancy Book

By John A. Murray

Book Overview

"It is not down on a map; true places never are, " said Herman Melville. These and other quotes from famous people--assembled in the spirit of the Nature Conservancy--inspire nature lovers with plenty... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558219420
• ISBN13: 9781558219427
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

A Book for a Lifetime!

This book is truely excellent. It is divided into catagories from community to place to stewardship, with quotations from well, and less well, known naturalists and other people like Thoreau, Emerson, Jane Goodall, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Wendell Berry, Wallace Stegner, David Brower, Margaret Mead, Rachel Carson, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Darwin, Skakespeare, and so many more. There is an index, so you can look someone's name up and find quotations made by them. There is also a section called "Selected Biographies," which has short biographies of some of the people who wrote the quotations in this book. It is truely a pleasure to read, inspirational, and provides plenty of food for thought. A great book for "anyone who loves nature - birders, hikers, fisherman, gardeners, backpackers, adventurers..."