What follows is a rationale for recognition of the importance of nature; of the beginnings of an environmental movement and of the blend of the professional and amateur, science, art and emotion within that movement. It embraces special spiritual or transcendent connections to space, gendered responses, and the place of the Woodlanders, friends and followers in this story.

— The Woodlanders of Walden Hut by Dr Janice Newton, Karen Phillips, Paula Herlihy (Page 2)