Quotes About Nature

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.