Quotes About Nature

I think simple's good. That's why I enjoy swimming. It's very primitive, very simple.

I love skinny-dipping. Night swimming as well; that's my favorite.

I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.

I live three blocks away from the beach, so every day I walk down to the beach to run or go swimming. Hiking is a big one for me - so long as it's something where I'm not thinking about working out, like in a contrived class or the gym.

I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.

I do hikes; I do swimming.

Swimming, trekking, outdoor sports activities have been a part of life right from childhood through youth.

I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.

We have a big garden; there's a swimming pool, and we keep chickens. I love them. I love getting up in the morning and collecting the eggs.

In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

We were brought up with having a love of your garden, having somewhere you can go in, it's your little sanctuary, you can go there and you can switch off.

Some people say it is relaxing to fish. But not with me. I simply cannot switch off my competitive instincts.

On a Friday night, I switch on my log burner, stick on 'Gardeners' World' and I am so happy.

The Caribbean is great, but I also love the mountains as well. I'm a big skier, and I love spending time in Switzerland skiing. It really depends.

I have been to Switzerland a handful of times, and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to climb.

I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.

The seasons had always been a part of the way I cooked and ate in Switzerland, and they again became what guided me in New York.

For 'Jeremiah Johnson,' nobody wanted to make that film. I went to Sydney Pollack, and I said, 'Sydney, I live in the mountains, and I would like to make a film about a person that had to exist in the mountains and survive in the mountains.'

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.