Nature quotes

149 nature quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “- Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr.: This is nature, huh? The trees. The forests.
    - Junior: The toilets.”

    John Ritter - Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr.
    Michael Oliver - Junior
    [Tag:nature]
  • “Frontiers are an invention of men. Nature doesn't give a hoot.”
    Marcel Dalio - Le lieutenant Rosenthal
    [Tag:invention, limits, nature]
  • “Ha Ha! It's the wonder of nature, baby!”

    Philip Seymour Hoffman - Dustin Davis
    [Tag:nature, storm, wonder]
  • “- Pocahontas: Say something.
    - John Smith: What do you say to a tree?
    - Pocahontas: Anything you want.”

    Irene Bedard - Pocahontas
    Mel Gibson - John Smith
    [Tag:nature, talking, trees]
  • “One does not sell the land upon which all living creatures walk.”

    Buffy Sainte-Marie - Kate Bighead
    [Tag:nature]
  • “I bet you've never been camping before. It's so much fun! There's singing, marshmallows, and all sorts of stupid humans to scare!”
    Michael Oliver - Junior
    [Tag:amusement, countryside, nature]
  • “What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.”

    Jeff Goldblum - Malcolm
    [Tag:discovery, nature, violence]
  • “A ninja loves nature, 'cause he is part of nature. A ninja never fights a battle if he cannot win.”
    Chad Power - Tum Tum
    [Tag:battle, nature, winning]
  • “- Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
    - Young Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
    - Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat...” (continue)
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    James Earl Jones - Mufasa
    Jonathan Taylor Thomas - Young Simba
    [Tag:animals, life, nature]
  • “Those same seeds now yield death. Not, of course, to animals or plant life. One must preserve the balance of nature.”

    Michael Lonsdale - Hugo Drax
    [Tag:balance, flowers, nature]
  • “- Raphael: Ah, nature. I love it. Makes me want to, I don't know, migrate or something.
    - Donatello: Turtles don't migrate, Raph. Birds do!”

    Tim Kelleher - Raphael
    Corey Feldman - Donatello
    [Tag:animals, migration, nature]
  • “Once upon a time, there lived a magnificent race of animals that dominated the world through age after age. They ran, they swam, and they fought and they flew, until suddenly, quite recently, they disappeared. Nature just gave up and started again. We weren't even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when...” (continue)(continue reading)
    John Wood - Falken
    [Tag:future, nature, surrender]
  • “I am indeed beautiful. Sometimes I sit and wonder, in my artless Japanese way, why it is that I am so much more attractive than anybody else in the whole world. Can this be vanity? No! Nature is lovely, and rejoices in her loveliness. I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.”

    Shirley Henderson - Leonora Braham
    [Tag:beauty, nature, vanity]
  • “- Roman: I tell you what I see when I look out there. I see the undeveloped resources of Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and Michigan. I see a syndicated development consortium exploiting over a billion and a half dollars in forest products. I see a paper mill and if the strategic metals are there, a mining operation. A greenbelt between the...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig
    John Candy - Chet Ripley
    [Tag:capitalism, nature, philosophy]
  • “Do you ever think that we have too much time on our hands? With all the advances made in extending the human life span, that perhaps nature's cruelest irony is that we get progressively stupider and stupider with each passing generation. I mean, some day we'll live for 300 years but we won't be able to sit still for 5 seconds... just a thought.”
    Todd Field - Duane
    [Tag:evolution, nature, time of life]
  • “Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world. There is only so much water, so much earth, so much air; but the life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift.”

    Edward G. Robinson - "Wolf" Larsen
    [Tag:life, limits, nature]
  • “Sometimes the bees get confused, and run away. That's them there on the tree. But they don't really want to be gone. And they're happy when someone helps them back into their home. But you got to keep calm and don't panic when they sting, 'cause they don't mean nothing by it.”

    Vanessa Zima - Penny Jackson
    [Tag:calmness, helping, nature]
  • “All matter in our world is from the natural bases, which are earth, air, fire and water; the four elements from which all things are created.”
    Tamarah Park - Tutor
    [Tag:creation, nature]
  • “The rainstorm and the river are my brothers, the heron and the otter are my friends, and we are all connected to each other in a circle, in a hoop that never ends!”

    Irene Bedard - Pocahontas
    [Tag:empathy, nature]
  • “- Crysta: But how can you live without trees?
    - Zak: Easy.
    - Crysta: But trees give life. They make the clouds, the water, the air.
    - Zak: We have air.
    - Batty Koda: Yeah, if you don't mind getting all your minerals in one breath.”

    Samantha Mathis - Crysta
    Jonathan Ward - Zak
    Robin Williams - Batty Koda
    [Tag:air, nature, trees]
  • “I'm not all alone in the dark. I like the dark. I love the dark.
    [he ducks and crawls under a tree branch]
    But I hate nature! I hate nature!”

    Jeff Cohen - Chunk
    [Tag:darkness, fear, nature]
  • “- Elsa von Frankenstein: What a dreadful storm and awful lightening.
    - Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: It's magnificent. Nothing in nature is terrifying when one understands it.”

    Josephine Hutchinson - Elsa von Frankenstein
    Basil Rathbone - Baron Wolf von Frankenstein
    [Tag:fear, nature, storm]
  • “- Dr. Hans Reinhardt: The risk is incidental compared to the possibility to posses the great truth of the unknown. There - long cherished laws of nature - simply do not apply. They vanish!
    - Dr. Alex Durant: And - life?
    - Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Life? Life forever!”

    Maximilian Schell - Dr. Hans Reinhardt
    Anthony Perkins - Dr. Alex Durant
    [Tag:knowledge, life, nature]
  • “I hate this place. I mean, everybody says coming out to nature is supposed to be a poetic and inspiring experience, right? What is so inspiring about bugs and insects and snakes and creatures of the night making all that racket? It's suffocating and it's vile, and it's full of rot.”
    Virginya Keehne - Melissa Danson
    [Tag:comfort, insects, nature]
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