Quotes About Nature

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

While I was thinking about the next film to do, I was also reading this book by Diane Ackerman called 'The Natural History of the Senses' - an anthropological and sociological look at the senses. But it also has this great sense of enthusiasm.

You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.

There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

Genes are natural resources.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Natural selection is not evolution.

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Frightened is the natural state for all men.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

For all my life I have had a deep connection to the natural world.

Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man.

The natural world is not indestructible.

A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.