Nature quotes

“You see this little hole? This moth’s just about to emerge. It’s in there right now, struggling. It’s digging it’s way through the thick hide of the cocoon. Now, I could help it – take my knife, gently widen the opening, and the moth would be free – but it would be too weak to survive. Struggle is nature’s way of strengthening it.”
Terry O'Quinn - John Locke

“You know when I used to get high, I’d watch nature programmes on the Beeb. Polar bears are meant to be quite clever, very clever. They’re like the Einsteins of the bear community.”
Dominic Monaghan - Charlie Pace

“Camping is just being homeless without the change.”
Spencer Grammer - Summer Smith

“As above, so below. The human being finds himself, or herself, in the middle. There is as much space outside the human, proportionately, as inside. Stars, moons, and planets remind us of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Is there a bigger being walking with all the stars within? Does our thinking affect what goes on outside us, and what goes on...” (continue)(continue reading)
Catherine E. Coulson - Log Lady

“Is life like a game of chess? Are our present moves important for future success? I think so. We paint our future with every present brush stroke. Painting. Colors. Shapes. Textures. Composition. Repetition of shapes. Contrast. Let nature guide us. Nature is the great teacher.”
Catherine E. Coulson - Log Lady

“Natural selection doesn’t make mistakes. ”
Ginés García Millán - César

“You can die out here. You’re out in the wilderness, far away from anybody. You can die out here. Don’t you understand that? You have to take it seriously. You have to have a way to get help. You have to be able to change your own tire.”

Swankie - Swankie

“I can’t imagine what you’re going through, the loss of your husband, and the loss of your whole town, and friends, and village, and that kind of loss is never easy. And I wish I had an easy answer for you. But I think you’ve come to the right place to find an answer. I think that, I think connecting to nature, and to a real true community, and...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bob Wells - Bob

“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.”
Rolf Lassgård - Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen

“- Howard: We've wounded this mountain. It's our duty to close her wounds. It's the least we can do to show our gratitude for all the wealth she's given us. If you guys don't want to help me, I'll do it alone.
- Curtin: You talk about that mountain like it was a real woman.
- Dobbs: She's been a lot better to me than any woman I ever knew. Keep...” (continue)(continue reading)
Walter Huston - Howard
Tim Holt - Curtin
Humphrey Bogart - Fred C. Dobbs

“Because nature is what we see here in our heads. Nothing else! Without our eyes, there's no nature. And none of us sees the world around us the same way.”
Oscar Isaac - Paul Gauguin

“I feel God is nature and nature is beauty.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“Why should the Falls drag me down here at 5 o'clock in the morning? To show me how big they are and how small I am? To remind me they can get along without any help? All right, so they've proved it. But why not? They've had ten thousand years to get independent. What's so wonderful about that? I suppose I could too, only it might take a little...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joseph Cotten - George Loomis

“Basically, nature is my genius loci, or the place where my spirit resides.”
Judith Anderson

“Personally, I believe it is important for mankind to respect nature - for homeostasis - and I have volunteered with environmental organizations, I do not attempt to have an environmental leaning regarding my artwork.”
Judith Anderson

“You can't tame what's meant to be wild, doc. It just ain't natural.”
John Carradine - Erle Kenton

“It is what it is... It's Promethean man.”
Oscar Isaac - Nathan

“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.”
Margaret Avery - Shug Avery

“- Meneer Chrome: This is an Anglo-Dutch garden, madam, with French influence. We have progressed from flowers. A garden is a celebration of art's triumph over nature.
- James Fitzmaurice: We shall be the fucking flowers. We shall provide the color and scent as we walk among the gravel paths.”

Ewan McGregor - Meneer Chrome
Richard R. Grant - James Fitzmaurice

“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.”
Harrison Ford

“We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.”
Harrison Ford

“Deep in the heart of Africa is a place no man has ever entered. The place that belongs to the lion, the elephant and the ape. A place known as the Bukuvu. Travellers flying overhead can only glimpse at its many marvels, its sparkling rivers, its lush veldts, its billowy cloud formations and its hidden mountains.”

Keith Scott - The Narrator

“- Rachel: Do you have a family?
- Harry Dalton: No.
- Rachel: Why not?
- Harry Dalton: Well, for one thing: I move around alot. Mexico, Alaska, South America, The Philippines, New Guinea, basically where there's a volcano with an attitude.”
Linda Hamilton - Rachel Wando
Pierce Brosnan - Harry Dalton

“Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.”
Jim Carrey - Joel Barish

“You were bitten by a chuckwalla. That shouldn't have happened. It's a reptile of peace. I have a theory. This isn't the first time that nature's lashed out at you like this. I believe it's because your life is fundamentally at odds with the natural world. Therefore, nature rejects you.”

Bradley Cooper - Demo