Quotes About Nature

I understand the atmosphere better than I ever did before. You feel the thermals while paragliding. You are in the clouds. Chasing a storm puts you in front of the cloud, not a book. I hope to learn as I do these things.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.

It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things.

I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man's land. It defined the idea of the American frontiersman as man conquering nature. In a way, the story of Hugh Glass is about man dominating nature.

There's some good films, there's some films that could be improved. So we keep trying until we get it right. That's the nature of storytelling, whether it's on paper or on film.

One of the most important aspects of what makes us who we are is neither straight genes or straight environment but actually what happens to us during development.

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

The straight line is ungodly.

I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.

I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way.

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

I am probably not the best creative person in the industry. I am probably not the best business person in the industry. But by nature being both, I think, is a strategic advantage.