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" Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. "

Andy Goldsworthy

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" Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. "

" 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' "

" It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. "

Philip Emeagwali

" Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced. "

Gael Garcia Bernal

" Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. "

Honore de Balzac

" My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. "

" Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. "

" No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. "

" By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them. "

" For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance. "

" One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. "

" Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? "

Henry David Thoreau

" I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. "

" There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

" When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. "

James Whitcomb Riley

" The world is always in movement. "

" I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. "

" I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. "

" I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity. "

Christina Aguilera

" Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. "

Antoine Lavoisier

" Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature. "

" He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. "

" I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. "

" Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. "

William Ruckelshaus

" Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. "

" The poetry of the earth is never dead. "

" I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions. "