Nature Exploration Quotes

For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.

I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.

In climbing there is no question of right or wrong. Moral right or wrong, that is a religious question, they have nothing to do with anarchical activity, and classical mountaineering is a completely anarchical activity.

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

I loved to go hunting out in the woods and hiking, and that's just not easy anymore. For me, to walk up and down hills in the rough terrain, it just doesn't work very well. It can, but it's three times as hard as it used to be.

I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

As a parent, I tell my boys to keep away their smartphones and go outdoors and play. I take them to our farm where my father does a bit of farming, where they get their hands dirty. It is their digital detox.

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

I'm from Canada, so I did a lot of camping and rafting growing up.

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

When I was 12, my mum put us in a summer camp meant for children from low-income families. It was in upstate New York where we had to live in tents, fetch water, cook our meals, and even dig our own toilet bowls.

Some of my greatest memories are of sleep-away camp; I did that three summers in a row when I was, like, 9,10, and 11.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

I'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?