Quotes About Nature

The Philippines consists of different beautiful islands, so my Filipino fans are as beautiful and passionate.

In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.

One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.

My idea of heaven is being in Arizona, stuck up a mountain - somewhere where there are no phones.

The thing I love most about going to the Rocky Mountain National Park is that mobile phones don't work, and there's no electricity and no TV.

There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.

My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.

Biking and photography are a perfect combination for me.

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.

Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.

Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human.

You can't argue with physics, mate.

Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.