Quotes About Nature

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.

By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending it carefully and with love, your world and everyone's else's world too, becomes a better place.

The majority of the time I live out of a rucksack in some jungle or stuck up some mountain. The luxury tends to be when my wife and children are there.

I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that Appalachian soul.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.

Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.

I think tennis was just in my genes.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

We discovered that often it was better to sleep in a nice familiar tent than to go off and look for a hotel.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Hopefully I won't have to sleep with my feet out of the tent.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

For two summers, I lived up on the Eiger for close to 40 days. It was in a tent under this overhang near the start of Deep Blue Sea. I would drink the water that dripped from the ceiling.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms.

I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona.

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

In my little way I am trying to contribute to the Mother Nature by doing some terrace plantation.

Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.'

I got this pretend grass stuff called LazyLawn on my roof. Now I can go out on my terrace in bare feet, and it looks exactly like a lawn. This is what science should be for.