Ozark Natural Science Center

“There is no word for ‘nature’ in my language… Nature, in English, seems to refer to that which is separate from human beings. It is a distinction we don’t recognize.” –Audrey Shenandoah, a member of the Onondaga clan. (as written by Harvey Arder and Steve Wall in the Wisdomkeepers [1990]).

“The earth’s vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants and the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals… Without soil, land plants as we know them could not grow, and without plants no animals could survive…in nature nothing exists alone.” –Rachel [...]

Flowers: The forests are full of flowers. Primrose, ox-eyed daisies, robin’s plantain, dwarf and false dandelions, spider wort, wild comfrey, corn salad, calamint, and various species of vetch are blooming all over the Ozarks and can even be seen in yards and along roadsides. Throughout the moist forest we have seen the wild hycinth, venus [...]

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.