Quotes About Nature

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now.

You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.

For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks.

Orcas are my spirit animal. That's my favorite mammal.

Bare feet on the grass comfort the spirit and connect the body to the earth all at once!

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

I love being naked. I'm a free spirit.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

Nature, God, Buddha - someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, I can do anything. As long as I have that spirit, I'm going to keep doing it.

I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.