Quotes About Nature

I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

From a conservation issue alone, you'd have to say there are too many badgers. A bigger growth in the badger population is not good for the balance of conservation anyway.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

We had a cabin in the mountains - and I remember, one year around this time, a moose came down the river, and one night he came to our cabin and hung out on the back porch for hours. They're really, really, really big animals. And dangerous, especially if they're a momma.

In summer, I like to sit and compose on the porch, where I can see people come and go.

Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

Most photo shoots are a beautiful dress, a natural location, and poses.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

I can't begin to try to articulate the competitive nature I possess.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

I wish we did, in a way, grow up in the forest and we didn't all just post bikini pictures and work out just to look good.

When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

The way that we live with potentially dangerous animals is not to kill them, but to understand them and to coexist with them.

I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.

I spend a ridiculous amount on pots, lilacs, and alliums.