Quotes About Nature

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.

I've tried to meditate, but I feel like I always overthink the process. When I need to calm my mind, I will go for a family hike...

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.

I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

It was like a big family, since so many of us brought our kids. We all went surfing. It was so relaxed and easy.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family's had forever, and it's on Lake Winnipesaukee. And so we went there every summer as we were dating.

After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts but this is not true of a family tree.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

I create neo-surreal gardens with my paint brush