Quotes About Nature

My only hobby is going for walks outdoors.

After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful.

Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.

If we ever have free time, my partner and I are fond of going on walks through the local state forests and parks.

I am, by nature, pretty reserved. It was after I became an actor that I started interacting more with people from different walks of life!

Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees.

Coloradans of all walks of life value the environment.

Take lots of walks. It's the best way to discover your world, both inner and outer.

One of my favorite things to do with my dog and my sister's dog and my mom and my sister is to go for these really long walks.

I like to take walks and getting out and seeing things. These experiences are so irreplaceable and give you a whole different perspective on the greater context that you're in. If I didn't try to take advantage of that, I'd be missing out on a lot of really interesting things.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

When filming for 'Beowulf,' we were close to Hadrian's Wall; there was no phone signal, and the scenery was spectacular.

I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

I'm more on the country side than big cities.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Australia's a big part of my life.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things.

I like biology a lot.