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Quotes About Nature

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
~ E. O. Wilson
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
~ Garrison Keillor
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
~ Isaac Asimov
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
~ Betty White
I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.
~ Glenn Close
Support your right to arm bears.
~ Cleveland Amory
Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!
~ Tippi Hedren
Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.
~ Charles Bukowski
One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.
~ Shirley Ann Grau
Many cats are the death of the mouse.
~ Kaspar Hauser
A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
~ A. A. Milne
Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
~ John Gay
I've had pets my whole life, and I grew up with pigs and cows.
~ Eric Stonestreet
I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
~ Ioan Gruffudd
The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.
~ Lin Yutang
I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.
~ John Lydon
She was better with animals than people. Give her a sick cat or dog, she was golden. Not so much with her own species.
~ N. Raines
The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop's philosophy.
~ Farid al-Din Attar
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
~ Epictetus
I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.
~ Lil' Kim
Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.
~ Max Picard
Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.
~ Christopher Titus
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
~ Alexander von Humboldt