Quotes About Nature

Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don't understand, all they care about is whether it's edible and whether it's dangerous. Humans, on the other hand, are drawn to the mystery for its own sake.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.

If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.

You pray for days when the crappie fishing is so relentlessly good that you're giggling like a kid and the only things you're lacking in life are another stringer and an extra hour on the water. But what do you do with that pile of freshly caught crappies spilling out of your cooler? Call your pals for a mega-fry.

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

I'm a little long-winded. My dad is a preacher, my mom is Italian, so I come by it naturally.

Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Of course, it's human nature for people, when they meet me to have some preconceptions about how I look, how I sing, how I behave. I can understand that. And I've realized you can't do anything about human nature except to ignore it.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

I think it's true to say that everybody has a fascination with predators. It's something that's hardwired into us.

In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

There's something about Australia that feels prehistoric.

Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I'd ever meet anyone to have a baby with.