Nature Center
The Sherwood Island Nature Center, constructed and opened in 2009, is a summer facility that offers close-up experiences with live animals, displays about the environment and local history, and educational programs for people of all ages. It is supported by the Connecticut Department of Environment and Energy as well as by the Friends of Sherwood Island, an independent non-profit organization. In recent years the Friends group has sponsored a free Sunset Lecture Series and special family events on topics related to environmental preservation and proper stewardship of the state's natural resources.
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“What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood. St. Peter’s cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand—a center of gravity.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)