Quotes About Nature

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes and civil engineering.

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.

If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.

The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.

I have been lucky enough to inherit the patient, loving and nurturing side from my mother, and the organizational and productive side from my dad.

By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.

By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it.

If anyone ever asks me about different places, I always say I'd rather be in Howth. Any time I'm home, I just walk the pier and think how lucky I am to be there.

Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.

I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

What kind of a dinosaur am I? I guess something like a triceratops. A triceratops is not too dynamic, but has a little strength.

I love mountain-biking or any form of bikes, like dirt bikes; I love getting out there, although obviously I have to be careful.

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.