Quotes About Nature

Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

I don't know if we will really have a doomsday for human beings, but if we did, to me, it wouldn't be an unjust outcome, given how many species we're taking with us every year.

I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

The only possibility to have a knowledge of both the Earth's nature and our own internal nature is through traditional climbing when you go on your own, far from safety, and encounter the unknown.

I'm a child of the Earth, postcode unknown.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

Redheaded women buck like goats.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.

O woman shapely as a swan.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.