Quotes About Nature

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

The way my body works, people are always going to stare at me. It's just human nature.

To go in the water and stare at a shrimp for three minutes and not think about anything else in the world, it's just euphoric.

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.

The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.

Most people start eating healthy after the doctor says they have a problem. That's just human nature.

I always start a painting with the sky.

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.

I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature.

Come September, the middle of September when the first frost comes, that's hunting season. Fishing poles are hung up and the hunting season starts. You've got to be careful, if you're a hunter, that it doesn't become an obsession.

The begonia is an amazing plant... it just keeps going along and blooming, and when cut back, it starts up again.

If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going to starve to death because they can't compete. When they starve, they start to eat things they shouldn't be eating and spread disease not only to them but to us.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.