Quotes About Nature

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

Most of my hunting experiences has been in tree stands. I've never called deer.

I'm pretty patient since I'm big into hunting.

People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.

Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.