Quotes About Nature

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks.

I plant vegetables and every time I see a flower I'm like, 'I'm going to get a vegetable in a few weeks!'

Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.

I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

Birds and insects are part of the ecosystem and help in pollination. I don't see any problem in having fruits and vegetables that birds want to eat, as opposed to the perfect shaped tomato that only you can eat and which, by the way, could also be cancerous.

We grow our own vegetables.

In the countryside, planting flowers, vegetables and trees is not difficult.

What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

I've turned vegetarian and am on an ayurvedic diet. I go to the beach every day, and I feel the creative energy of Auroville.

I grew up on an organic farm in England. And I was a vegetarian from an early age - not just for health, not for the environment - just because I didn't believe in killing animals to eat them.

I don't like the idea of beating birds. I'm vegetarian.

Vegetarian' is just another word for 'bad hunter.'

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

One of the reasons I like living in Bangkok is that, although it's a megacity, it's very saturated with nature - the vast and brooding skies, the sudden storms and rains, the vegetation and even the animals that abound.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.