Quotes About Nature

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.