Natural Resources

The Ranch is blessed with a wealth of natural beauty and is a wonderful place for observing plant and animal life at close range in our forests, meadows, and creeks.

Devil's Gulch Ranch is adjacent to Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Samuel P. Taylor State Park with abundant hiking, riding trails, and camping.

Newts, frogs, fish, slugs, lizards, wild turkeys, vultures, deer, and bobcats are some of the animals that make their home around the ranch.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

John Muir

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy.

Mark Twain

Was it not a boy who played at the water's edge that became the man Mark Twain?

Brian King

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

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