Rachelle Lefevre Quotes

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

Greer is Missouri's second-largest spring. It is a place of pounding, frothing waters and of greeny-cool moss-covered rock, a place of fern and cliffy splendor.

I have gone to the forest.

I like the outdoors.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

I really fell in love with Africa.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

The pearl of Africa.

I like North Florida because it's much wilder than the rest of the state.

When filming for 'Beowulf,' we were close to Hadrian's Wall; there was no phone signal, and the scenery was spectacular.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.

From an early age, Yosemite became the centre of my universe. I've been going every summer since I was a child. I love everything about that place: waterfalls, high-quality rock, history.