Quotes About Nature

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good."

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

Things always work according to their nature.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.