Quotes About Nature

I especially like the Padstow area and the south coast near Portloe. It's lovely, though I do wish it was a bit closer to London.

I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored.

I used to live on a houseboat near Hammersmith Bridge.

I really have a passion for the sea, so I think it's important that whatever I do, I want to be near the sea.

What I really spend money on is finding a nice place to stay near the sea.

I love having the mountains nearby so I can get on the motorbike or bike and get off to go for a walk.

I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and the anonymous nature of the process makes outside research nearly impossible.

My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.

I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

We've been some cool places fishing. My parents and my family all went up to Alaska. We fished for king salmon, and that was really neat.

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest.

For 'Monster Hunter,' we needed insane landscapes.

Needless to say, perfumes are a must for every season.

No matter what happens, I can go back to the mountains. I have nature and my wonderful friends and neighbors. I get so much by being there.

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.