Quotes About Nature

If your daughter loves tennis, don't send her to dance classes. Let them learn spirituality. Don't shut them up in air-conditioned rooms where they watch TV all day and snack on chips. Let them get out, play in the dirt, sweat it out and come back home.

I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.

I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.

I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.

We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.

Where I am from in Sweden was on the beach, so I love the sound of the water hitting the dock.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.

I dislike cats. I like horses, some monkeys, and sweet dogs that aren't too aggressive. I used to have a wonderful, big cat, and one day I came into the kitchen and it was on the table, ruining all the food we were about to eat. I was so annoyed that I took it to a friend's house in the country.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.

I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

You know, I think that nature has such a powerful message about moving from dark to light, and bitterness to sweetness.

I can be sittin' at home in Hawaii and see the biggest swell of the year coming here and be so happy and just say, 'No, I'm happy right here.'

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'

I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!

I feel a strong connection to water, so, no matter the time of year, I always go for a swim.