Quotes About Nature

William James defined psychology as the science of mental life, but it could equally be defined as the science of human nature.

There's also something about ageing and the concomitant awareness of the fleeting nature of existence that tends to make you less worried about being ridiculous, and less judgemental about the quality of ridiculousness in others.

Early hopes when the pandemic first hit that nature was 'healing' had turned on their head and it appeared that in fact the virus was on the side of greed and destruction after all, annihilating all that was small and true and firming up the grip megalomaniacs and madmen had on the planet, in an attempt to push us more quickly towards the abyss.

The land on which this game is played holds memories for a very long time, and once in a while, it lets us come back and walk around in them.

If you had ever leaned sideways into the breeze with a sand wedge in your hands, staring through windblown tears at a golf ball entombed in four feet of fanged thistle, clothes soaked through to the skin, fingers like an overworked fishmonger, and yet you couldn't bring yourself to stop smiling—then you got it.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity say, if he pleases, I never will compromise; but, let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

I love the ocean. Anywhere near the ocean will do. Preferably the Atlantic Ocean.

If you have the ocean and you have your board, nothing matters.

There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.

The landscape in Ireland is just - I've never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.

Health to the ocean means health for us.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

I grew up next to the ocean, on the coast, and would dance the salsa all day, so I just learned those rhythms and knew how to move my body when I was very little.

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.