Quotes About Nature

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.

It's my perception that more people are actively committed to human familyhood today, and to a holistic relationship with the natural universe, than at any other time in my 71 years.

I had a very specific idea of the personal nature of the story I wanted to tell, really changing the image and the perception of Kratos.

I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

In the jungle, you learn about the other beauties in life. In everyday life, it's all about looking perfect, but in there, there's none of that.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

A falcon is the perfect hunter.

My perfect day is to get up at 5:30 A.M., jump on my scooter and go to the beach.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

In my perfect world, I go off and make films, and then come home to my farm.

Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

I remember going out alone in a canoe. Somebody told me to lie in the bottom of the canoe and just drift. It was a small lake and I was perfectly safe. So I did that, and I drifted. It was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, I heard a loon cry the first time I ever heard that marvelous sound.

I think there are people with the genes for being natural performers. Sometimes they go haywire and destroy themselves because of it and because they have no order in their lives.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.

Nothing beats a jog, and perhaps a push-up or two, by the ocean on a beautiful day.