Sean Bean Quotes

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

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

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.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

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

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.

I was very into animals and nature, and really obsessed with cats and monkeys. I used to play in the woods, wander off into the woods for hours. I'd bring a clipboard and think that I was doing some work out there, following the trails of raccoons or collecting bird feathers.

I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.

I'm always happy when I'm outside working in the company of nature.

If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.

I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.

You don't need to be an athlete to enjoy the outdoors.

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.

Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.