Nature & Outdoors: Nature Quotes

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"The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion"

John H. Speke, Explorer

"Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean, or soared through the skies left its imprint here"

Robert M. Fresco

"I'm off to sit on a cliff"

Nik Kershaw, Musician

"The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves"

Jack Hanna, Celebrity

"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future"

Dave Freudenthal, Politician

"I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed"

John Bachman, Clergyman

"But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside"

Keith Carradine, Actor

"It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders"

Collin C. Peterson, Politician

"I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food"

John Bachman, Clergyman

"Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy"

Hamlin Garland, Novelist

"Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld"

Henry Williamson, Author

"Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, the fields his study, Nature was his book"

Robert Bloomfield, Poet

"Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring"

William Alexander, Writer

"It may be, for 20 or 30 years, no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass"

Jay Cooke, Businessman

"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"

Francis Cabot Lowell, Businessman

"Nature is just enough, but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions"

Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Clergyman

"People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely"

Henry Cantwell Wallace, Politician

"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford"

John Aubrey, Writer

"The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence"

William Henry Hudson, Author

"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig"

John H. Speke, Explorer

"Nature has different times"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week"

Malcolm Boyd, Clergyman

"Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me"

Larry Wilcox, Actor

"Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct"

Henry Williamson, Author

"Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy"

John Baldacci, Politician

"Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns"

Leonard Alfred George Strong, Writer

"I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow"

Laurie Lee, Poet

"Do Tasmanian devils really exist?"

Tom Cochrane, Musician

"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself"

L. Wolfe Gilbert, Musician

"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods"

Terry Gilliam, Director

"When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen"

James Baker, Politician

"Against her ankles as she trod, the lucky buttercups did nod"

Jean Ingelow, Poet

"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes"

Marie Corelli, Novelist

"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach"

Henry Beston, Writer

"As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness"

George Aiken, Politician

"I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me"

Gordon Lightfoot, Musician

"About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden"

Frank Yerby, Author

"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies"

Eden Ahbez, Musician

"We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them"

Don Sherwood, Politician

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