Quotes About Nature

The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.

I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.

In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.

I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.

We've fished down in Naples, Florida. We've fished out in Idaho. We've been everywhere fishing, and I think the best part of it is that it brings my family together and it gives us an opportunity to be around each other.

It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore.

We say that a group united and developed in the royal way, by forces of nature, is a race; a group united and developed by way of might, by human forces, is a state. This, then, is the difference between a race or nationality and a state.

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

My sister works with animals, so Ive learnt a lot about them through her and have developed a love of native birds. I think just hearing the birds and seeing the birds and our animals, thats something that I really, really miss.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

It is natural to die as to be born.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Climate is always evolving, and natural disaster have always existed.

Floods, droughts, and natural disasters are a fact of life for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. They have persevered in the past, and they will adapt in the future - with the assistance of the scientists and experts at USDA.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.