Quotes About Nature

Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

And left the flushed print in a poppy there.

I'm obsessed with any kind of floral print.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.

There are certain things that should remain forever pristine in your memory, and that's how I look at Hanauma.

I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

I've won fair-play prizes, but that's just my nature, my character. This is who I am, and I do not feel the need to hide the real me.

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.

First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.

For me, the more I think about the problems of the world, I feel I have to be positive. I wouldn't like to fall into cynicism or nihilism. That's not in my nature.

I like to go out on my bike. That's when I do my thinking. Two or three hours on the roads - that's when you get time, and you can think without problems.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.