Quotes About Nature

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.

As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.

I've been very encouraged by the nature of the conversations that I've had and by the lack of questions that are tunnel-visioned in their understanding of sexuality and life and love.

Current psychological priesthoods ignore the fact that the profession of psychology was originated by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a physicist who recognized that the key to understanding human nature was the relationship between external stimuli and the brain.

To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Climbing is an understated culture.

I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.