Nature & Outdoors: Nature Quotes

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"So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air"

Rex Hunt, Entertainer

"A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see"

David Douglas, Environmentalist

"The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety"

James Hogg, Poet

"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains. I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream"

John Breaux, Politician

"I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all"

John Breaux, Politician

"Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage, and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree"

Bob Goodlatte, Politician

"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"I love the season changes"

Richard Manuel, Musician

"The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence"

Carl Pope, Environmentalist

"I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies"

Mark Burnett, Businessman

"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place"

Gunther Grass, Author

"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety"

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet

"In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women"

Hugo Claus, Novelist

"Nature is under control but not disturbed"

Beatrix of the Netherlands, Royalty

"I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also"

Todd Barry, Comedian

"I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks"

Don Sherwood, Politician

"I wanted to go out and experience the fields"

Rhona Mitra, Actress

"I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond"

Jennifer Wyatt, Athlete

"We are talking about predictable recurring flooding"

Robert A. Brady, Politician

"There is no forgiveness in nature"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true"

Ray Evans, Musician

"Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon"

Rafer Johnson, Athlete

"Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub"

Robert Hunter, Musician

"A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders"

Lord Dunsany, Novelist

"As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases"

Mike Rogers, Writer

"Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air"

Patricia Cornwell, Writer

"Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms"

Milton Avery, Artist

"In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them"

Marie Louise, Royalty

"All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment, and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically, nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides"

Judith Anderson, Actress

"It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets"

Hamlin Garland, Novelist

"Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees, and our kangaroos"

Harold Edward Holt, Politician

"Do no dishonour to the earth, least you dishonour the spirit of man"

Henry Beston, Writer

"I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish"

Jay Cooke, Businessman

"Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action"

Susan Collins, Politician

"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections"

John H. Speke, Explorer

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