Quotes About Nature

Good stewardship of the environment and our natural resources is necessary.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.

I hope I retain the appetite to find new things to stimulate me, whether that's travel or finding new interests. I'll always go out and enjoy nature and the countryside, because it's a big part of my life.

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.

I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

It's not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about.

I never go fishing on a full stomach. If we are allowed to, we always eat what we catch. Were eating food as fresh as it can be.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

The early firings contained many stones.

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.