Gerry Adams Quotes

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

Bora Bora is peaceful and quiet, but fun, so full of cool activities and more; spiritual to the core, and you leave with fully recharged batteries.

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

I'm happiest walking through fields, on beaches, and over riverbanks. Nature is my surrogate mother.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

We talk of communing with Nature but 'tis with ourselves we commune .... Nature furnishes the conditions.

Nature is nobody's ally.

I like, very much, nature. Since I'm always together with people, I like to retreat.

I go five steps in the garden, and I immediately lose track of time... it is a kind of joy in being alive in being in the world. I always found that in the garden. That is what it means to me.

It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

I like to escape to the beach and kind of ground myself whenever I can.

The hour or so I spent with the ninety-year-old David Attenborough was one of the most beatific of my life. An oddly religious term, I know, for a man who doesn't have much truck with religion, but it was the serenity of that time that will stay with me most.

We go into nature to transform.

On some days, I just want to sit under a shooting umbrella in a sunny outdoor location all over again.

I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.

I will absolutely admit that the feel and smell of sea spray and wind on my face will be very welcome. I will be happy to come back to Earth, our beautiful planet, when it is time.