Louis Agassiz Quotes

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

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

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

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

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.

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

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

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

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

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

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

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

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.

It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.

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.

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants.

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

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