Quotes About Nature

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Defiance in itself is a sign of strength, and strength is a light side of human nature - when at all present, that is.

Outdoor tennis plays into my strengths a little better.

I'm a runner by hobby and by nature of stress relief and staying fit.

That's what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed.

A lot of America is stressed by Mother Nature.

Without our natural soundscape, we are making ourselves tired, stressed, and frightened all at the same time.

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.

I used to always say, 'Cheetahs don't stretch.' And I look at myself as a cheetah.

Steve had a broad, easy smile and the biggest hands I had ever seen. I could tell by his stature and stride that he was accustomed to hard work.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.

I can fish from a stick and a string.

In many ways, string theory attempts to go beyond Einstein's dream... an all-encompassing description of nature that works at large distances where gravity becomes important as well as small distances where quantum mechanics is important.

If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.