Sadie Jones Quotes

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

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.

Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.

Study nature, not books.

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

It is impossible to teach people to conserve nature if they don't learn to love nature.

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated down rivers. So, I didn't experience these rivers, mountains, forests as some mythological figures but as thriving, living entities.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

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

I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way.

I love being out in nature. That is really important. It's everything actually.

I learned from my parents to revere nature. Their way of teaching my siblings and I to respect the environment was to be in it, and so we spent a great deal of time outdoors.

I love generally being out in nature. It is just so amazing.

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

Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we've forgotten about our inner power.

I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.