Quotes About Nature

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.

I'm not an urban person.

Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.

In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a landscape but a part of daily life.

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.

Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.

The Olympic movement has made a conscious attempt to make sports and disciplines urban in nature.

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?

That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.

Tokyo & Kyoto are two of my favorites. I like how Japanese cities live in harmony with their natural surroundings, with gardens and forests mixed into urban areas. The public transit is also fantastic and there are cat cafes everywhere.

A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.

Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can wise if you want to but be respected that is essential.'

Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.

In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.