“ It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value George Nakashima Architect
“ After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible. George Nakashima Architect
“ Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential. George Nakashima Architect
“ When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth. George Nakashima Architect
“ Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world. William Macneile Dixon Author
“ I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder. Ansel Adams Photographer
“ As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can". John Muir Author
“ For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. Edwin Way Teale Naturalist
“ Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. Anne Frank Author