What began as a common desire to secure wilderness for people to enjoy, has become a worldwide movement to preserve these areas for future generations. They're a place to escape the burdens of everyday life and an inspiration for our children. They're a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.
Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
Nature has to be felt.
We are not to tell Nature what she's gotta be! She's clever. She's always got better imagination than we have.
We like to spend time in nature because it won't judge us.
For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
Nature gives so much more than it asks for in return.
Nature's my religion. Earth's my church. Loving every creature is my belief.
These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.
John Hammond in Jurassic Park - The Lost World
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Nature is such a patient sculptor - grinding a tiny bit each day slowly, slowly for thousands of years to make such a supremely beautiful thing.
Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen in Downsizing
1Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Colors are the smiles of nature.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
I believe in God, only I spell it 'Nature'.
Only nature itself does great things for free.
Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.
Everything in nature called destruction must be creation - a change from beauty to beauty.
John Muir - 1869
1The real significance of wilderness is a cultural matter. It is far more than hunting, fishing, hiking, camping or canoeing; it has to do with the human spirit.
Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voilá!
Flik in A Bug's Life
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The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
Emperor of China in Mulan
11My wife says, "Camping is a tradition in my family". It was a tradition in everyone's family, til we invented the house!
I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.
So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.
With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction. We are treating nature like a toilet.
António Guterres - December 2022
The last thing a lion wants is to have his dinner handed to him on a silver platter.
Harvey Specter in Suits - Season 4 Episode 1
5Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.
Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4The ocean is a source of inspiration, wonder, and awe. Diving allows us to tap into that inspiration and to experience the world in a whole new way.