Quotes About Nature

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

I am more spontaneous than my character.

I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature.

In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.

I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

I love hiking out to Fallen Leaf Lake. It's a beautiful spot to go hike around, and it's at the base of one of the biggest mountains, Mount Tallac! And of course, I love to hit Sierra at Tahoe for snowboarding.

A zebra does not change its spots.

When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.

Central Park is the most amazing gift. It's incredible. You find new spots, new people, new friends for the dogs.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.