Quotes About Nature

Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

I take my part in the food chain very seriously.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Everything tastes better outdoors.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.