Tony Bennett Quotes

Study nature, not books.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating.