Quotes About Nature

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.

I've just got a flat with a little balcony, so I did that fantastic thing of buying far too many plants and not really knowing what was going to stay alive and what wasn't.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

I'm good with furniture, very bad with plants.

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

I have a living wall of 30 plants - tarragon, rosemary, echinacea. I like to walk alongside it, plucking and chewing.

Some people have dogs... I like leaves. I like plants, and I like flowers too. Ecstasy is big in my life.

I can't be into plants. I'm never at home.

I think plants present an opportunity for people to look closely at something and get invested in something that's truly very much outside of themselves.

I really want to go to school for herbalism. Healing plants - that's a really big passion for me.

I have a lot of plants - my living room is like a jungle. I like the idea of bringing the outside in.

Plants are so important to the ancients for medicine and in a religious aspect - and in hemlock!

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has ever seen.

It's a very strange experience to be four or five days from the closest point of land, and you see more plastic than life.

The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

I have trouble keeping plants alive. Even plastic ones.

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.

If I get a free moment, I want to get outside, play golf, go fishin'.