Welsh Proverb Quotes

I do like going out and finding free food. I've done it since I was a child. Fishing prawns and shrimps from the sea is wonderful, as is picking blackberries, sloes and mushrooms. Having a guide while out looking for mushrooms is really important, though, as picking the wrong type can be quite dangerous.

I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape.

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

Tomorrow's a hunting day," I say. "I won't be much of a help with that," Peeta says. "I've never hunted before." "I'll kill and you cook," I say. "And you can always gather." "I wish there was some sort of bread bush out there," says Peeta.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

I actually grew up watching 'Survivorman' and Bear Grylls. I know that pine needles are a good source of vitamin C and just random facts from watching the stuff.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.

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.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.

Part of the beauty of wilderness schooling is that the overheads are very low. You want a classroom? Build a shelter from nature's store. You want to eat? Forage for it.

We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can't help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.

That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.