Quotes About Nature

Before the lilacs are over and they are only shrunken stalks at the ends of drooping branches, I want to write a poem about them and their beauty brief and star-shining as a young girl's promise. Because there is so much made of strength and wealth and power, because the little things are lost in this world, I write a poem about lilacs knowing that both are this day's only: tomorrow they will lie forgotten.

The point is that our difference from beasts is wall to wall, permeating every moment of our day.

William Osler's ironical definition of man as 'the medicine-taking animal' is therefore justified inasmuch as it captures something distinctive about humans.

Trying to discover the contents of our ordinary Wednesdays in the tropisms of the evolved organism as reflected in brain activity is like applying one's ear to a seed and expecting to hear the rustling of the woods in a breeze.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Like the night mist twining itself about the hills and hollows of the land, he enfolded her then, his mouth softly fierce upon her lips, her breasts, her belly as he led her up a wending mountain path of the Northland, past fairy rings and elfin trees to a place where Thor's hammer, Mjöllnir, split the heavens asunder, and Rhowenna knew she soared higher than the gods in Asgard before floating gently back to earth, to drift like a swan upon a wild Northland mere

of the ocean and the sound of the water lapping

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

That's my nature: I'm going to be aggressive, but it has to be calculated.

I like camouflage a lot.

I go to camp every summer for seven weeks and it's like sleepaway camp.

My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.

So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.

My family always laugh at me because they all camp and I'm definitely not a camper!

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

I like camping.

For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a nature lover. Are you camping all the time?'

I love camping out, I love teaching tennis.

I did a lot of camping in Africa, because what does it mean to go to Africa if you don't camp along the river and see the animals come to drink at the water?

Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.

Canada is one of the best countries. There's so much to see here.

A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

I'm from Canada, so I did a lot of camping and rafting growing up.

I think that we are blessed to live here in Canada.