Quotes About Nature

I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild.

Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

I always love going on a safari drive whenever I visit Ulusaba Private Game Reserve in South Africa. I've been fortunate to see so many incredible animals over the years, and each time, it's completely different. Following Ulusaba's pack of wild dogs is my highlight.

What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go.

I remember my grandmother drying wild coffee berries in the sun, then hulling and roasting them for her own cup of coffee each morning.

A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature - to discover its true nature - other than by close and respectful observation?

You can't just go and collect animals from the wild. It's totally illegal.

Australia is a wild place.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul being given choice, may exercise it in whatever direction it chooses, for it learns just as well by its mistakes as by right action in the first place, perhaps even better.

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature.

The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.