Janine Benyus Quotes

Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.

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

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

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.

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

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

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

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

Mother Nature is not sweet.

As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

We're in a war, the war of industrial civilization against the natural world.

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

Nature is nobody's ally.

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.

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.

My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world. To go back even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in nature and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.

I love nature, and I love information.