Quotes About Nature

I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.