Ozark Natural Science Center

There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.  (Theodore Roosevelt) Read more about Monday Muse, Naturalist Notes and Wordless Wednesday features.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests. (John James Audubon) Read more about Monday Muse, Naturalist Notes and Wordless Wednesday features.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.  (Albert Einstein) Read more about Monday Muse, Naturalist Notes and Wordless Wednesday features.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. (John Burroughs) Read more about Monday Muse, Naturalist Notes and Wordless Wednesday features.  

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.  (Henry David Thoreau) Read more about Monday Muse, Naturalist Notes and Wordless Wednesday features.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.  (John Muir) Read more about Monday Muse, Naturalist Notes and Wordless Wednesday features.

There is a fantastic, optimistic vibe brewing in the Bear Hollow Natural Area. Call me Pollyanna, but it is the best energy I’ve seen since being most fortunate to join this team in October 2009.  We have an amazing and talented team of people who have really hit their stride working together, and it shows. [...]

In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we created, but what we refused to destroy.  (John Sawhill) Read more about Monday Muse, Naturalist Notes and Wordless Wednesday features.

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch… and the “dead months” will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.  ( Fiona Macleod: Where the Forest Murmurs) Read more about Monday Muse, Naturalist Notes and Wordless Wednesday features.

We’ve been rolling out a lot of weekly features here on the ONSC blog, and we hope you’re enjoying them!  Our Naturalist Notes will help you experience the best of the Ozarks right along with our team of talented Teacher Naturalists, and Wordless Wednesday highlights the beauty of the Bear Hollow Natural Area.  One more [...]