Quotes About Nature

If I'm lonely it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, that knows it's neither ice nor mud nor winter light but wood, with a gift for burning

Some ideas are not really new but keep having to be affirmed from the ground up, over and over. One of these is the apparently simple idea that women are as intrinsically human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact sheet of genetic encoding, biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions, above all, the social order around us.

I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.

why should the wild child weep for the scientists why

we move together like underwater plants

because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

Probably fishing is my first passion.

I have a big passion for flowers and nature.

You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

It's my nature to be happy, and food is something I'm passionate about.

I've always been passionate about animals.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.

I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

Inspiration is everywhere - life, travel, childhood, nature - it depends on how you see it, how you can absorb the inspiration, and it depends on how your mind thinks. It could be a pattern on the floor that may be the next pattern I put on a cake, it just depends upon how you take it, when you're seeing it and what you're looking for.

Every man has a pattern - I don't care what they say. They don't like to admit it, but they do.

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.