Quotes About Nature

I love evening tuberoses. My mother used to have tuberoses in her garden, and in the summers in Sacramento, it would get really hot and then cool down in the evenings. You'd walk up the driveway, and it made it feel like 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

The Alaskan summers are one of the most amazing things you can see.

British summers give me a really happy feeling.

My family, they come from farmers. I used to spend my summers on the farm instead of in the south of France. I loved the hard work and the earth.

I spent my summers in Sonoma at my grandfather's ranch, we called it Rancho Rodeo.

I am an Eagle Scout. I am very proud of that. When I was in college I worked summers in a Boy Scout summer camp. I was a nature conservation director.

I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders.

I grew up in kind of a resort community. I lived on a big lake. It was really cool growing up there. But a lot of people come there in the summertime, especially Seahawks guys.

Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.

Of course I climbed Everest without oxygen, but it's not the end of the story for me. The summit itself is not what counts. It's how'd you get there, what'd you climb, and there are really great opportunities to climb on this mountain. It's a beautiful place.

We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day when we had to make a decision whether we were going to go to the summit or not. It was already getting dark, but we made the call to go and made the summit, but as soon as we got there, this blizzard just hit.

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our ozone, I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will once again pale.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.