Quotes About Nature

Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.

Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.

Personally, fresh air and exercise help me stay healthy and make me feel great!

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.