Quotes About Nature

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

Golf and fishing. I usually do both at least once a week. The biggest fish I've ever caught was a 36 lb. carp.

Once a year, I gather a group of friends to go fishing.

One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

One time, I took a woman on a deserted island, and we lived like Mother Nature for 10 days.

I remember one time watching a bird snatch a dragonfly out of midair and thinking, 'Gee, life can come to an end - crunch! - just like that.'

One of the stories that inspires me is that it is documented that a honey badger killed a lion in a one-on-one.

I think it's important to spend some time with oneself, and the mountains are a great place to do that. So I go hiking and trekking often.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.

Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.