Quotes About Nature

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

Our dad used to take us fishing, and I still love it.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick is just a process of nature, and death is a process of nature, and being reborn through the soil is a process of nature.

If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.