Quotes About Nature

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

I do like going out and finding free food. I've done it since I was a child. Fishing prawns and shrimps from the sea is wonderful, as is picking blackberries, sloes and mushrooms. Having a guide while out looking for mushrooms is really important, though, as picking the wrong type can be quite dangerous.

We like to take picnics and sandwiches, driving through the green lanes. My wife loves the house, the dogs, and the animals we have around us, the deer and the fox that comes and pokes his head through the hedge.

Nothing's better than a picnic.

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

Picnics enable you to be outside, eat fun finger-food and enjoy that greatest of pastimes: People-watching.

The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can't conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

I've had pigeons, doves, mice. I had a cat, dogs.

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

I do Pilates, and hike with my dog.

Forest management is a pillar of rural communities.

Without sounding like a New Age crystal worshipper, you can feel something there, in these old dilapidated colonial farms and hidden graveyards in the middle of a pine forest. I certainly did as a kid.

You want them to have fun. If I don't like the way a horse looks, if he has his ears pinned back, I'll send him to the farm, let him go be a horse for a while.