Quotes About Nature

I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.

I am just like you, Destined to play my part.And leave, In the nature of my departure at least, Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make.

I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.

You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.