Quotes About Nature

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

Planet Earth is far more resilient than humans and will certainly outlive us.

Filming for 'MasterChef' with the Royal Marine Commandos in the Arctic was the only time I've felt like planet Earth was trying to kill me. It was so cold the hairs inside my nose froze.

Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.

I'm a plant eater.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.

'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

To be able to buy a plant and plant it, that's a luxury to me.

I'm a gardener, and I love to plant.

The benefits of letting produce finish on their plant, in its natural environment, is undeniable.

I got busy with planting saplings after I started the Green Globe initiative.

Apart from actually playing football, I am at my most happiest with either my dogs, or planting in the garden.

I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.