Quotes About Nature

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.

Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

I've always loved flowers, as a little girl I'd collect flower objects and little flower books. Now I love flowers on my night table and on my desk.

If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're actually quite clean creatures.

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.

The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food.

A man marries the most gorgeous girl he can find because It's human nature to want the best of anything. If other men admire her he likes that, too. We all work best under competition. After all, no one wants to face an egg beater across the breakfast table... or find a horror movie in his home when he doesn't even own a TV set.

My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

I love being outside with my boys, playing tag or trying to keep up with them.

If I can inspire a little girl by seeing me tag a shark, that's amazing.

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

I'm not opposed to a fancy meal, but I'll take a picnic any day... food and nature? Sign me up.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.

Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature.

Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

We survived on natural resources, so we should take care of the earth. When I leave home, I do things like switching off the heat and lights.

You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.