Quotes About Nature

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

I was on a beach in Hawaii for a video shoot once, and it was incredibly beautiful. It had very fine black sand with a silver sparkle running through it.

I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.

Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with my family a bunch, and traveling as much as we could. My parents wouldn't let me watch too much TV growing up or play video games, or anything like that.

Video games and outdoor sports - that was my childhood.

I'm a competitive guy, and I love the competitive nature of video games.

I consider myself lucky that I grew up in a time that there were no video games to keep my attention on indoor activities.

I've shown the players geese videos. I've shown them why geese fly in V formation, what everybody's role is, how geese support each other and, most importantly, why you fly further together. That's the bottom line. Geese wouldn't be able to migrate to the sun without all traveling together. It's the same for us.

There are tough elements of rural life of course, but I didn't put them in my videos.

Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

The view of Earth is spectacular.

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.