Quotes About Nature

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

Our dream is to one day uncover the essence of what makes us human.

I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.

Never underestimate the power of the ocean.

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.

We brick-and-mortar ourselves away from nature. The outside world is behind glass, underneath a slab of concrete, running through PVC. Our steel and concrete are suitable enough until nature comes knocking. And when she wants to get in, nothing can stop her.

Swimming outside the pool is scary. I don't like not knowing what's underneath me - it's quite dark in lakes. I swam in the sea in Australia around the Great Barrier Reef, though, and that was incredible because you could see exactly what was underneath you.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

The National Parks are overlooked and underrated, and they shouldn't be.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.