Quotes About Nature

The climbs up the Hand of Fatima, which is 2,000 feet, and Naga Parbat, which is just over 15,000 feet, were spectacular. The Hand of Fatima and the Kaga Tondo, in Mali, is a personal favourite of mine.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

We will get back to the earlier, instinctive and less inhibited nature of theatre. Today, spectators are passive, but Elizabethan, Greek and Roma; theatre was interactive.

You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum.

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

I have always been interested in the whole spectrum of the outdoors.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

People perceive me as this kind of hippy intellectual, reflecting and communing with nature or in a pyramid somewhere chanting. Really, no. I love speed, fast things, quad and road bikes, and bombing down a mountain.

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn't spend all of my time in either place.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

I take all my grandchildren down to the garden and they spend hours and hours eating peas.

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.

Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.

Like many New Mexicans, I enjoy spending time outdoors and understand how important New Mexico's natural beauty and resources are.

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

I've realized that I really like spending time in the countryside and having a garden.

Spending time with the horses was also a good place to escape to if you were having a bad day, so it was good from a mental point of view.

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali.

So we led our lives in nature and spent a lot of time together as a family. That's how we picked things up and learned about life.

I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.

In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy.