Quotes About Nature

Truly, it was beautiful to watch. Cruel, too - I admitted that. But what was beauty without a little cruelty at its heart?

Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.

None of us is a monster, Chiku. We're all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.

Wind snapped at me, warm and fragrant. The atmosphere was thick with pollen and micro-organisms, goading my body's ancient defences.

Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Risen. Their minds might be fixed on the stars, but their bodies were only a footstep from the dust and heat of Amboseli.

So she talked, and Noah, to his credit, did not quibble. He interrupted once or twice, but only for the sake of amplification or clarification, never because he doubted the essential veracity of her story. She told him all of it, from the pod, to the aircraft, to Eunice and the Tantors. She told him what she had learned of Eunice's nature, and why she had no reason to doubt that she had been talking to a machine. She told him of Eunice's amnesia, and the thing called Arachne.

Sometimes it was entirely right and proper to be awed. And recognising the physics in these formations, the hand of time and matter and the nuclear forces underpinning all things, did not lessen that feeling. What

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.

Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

Horses have really distinct personalities, and they're magical in many ways.

I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality.

I think fish do have personalities. Fish have very small brains so there's not much going on in there. But different types of fish have different personalities.

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

I was made exactly the way I was meant to be made in who I am and my personality and the way I was born.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.