Katharine Graham Quotes

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.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.

They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest.

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

Everything has to do with geography.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

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

I have been naturally inclined towards mountains, trees, flowers, and rivers.

I don't want to make light of the importance of my musical upbringing, as you cannot avoid being influenced by the area you grow up, but I will say that Reykjavik's geography is very different from, say, New York, Paris, or Copenhagen. There's big skies. The buildings are low. The landscape is spread out.

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

I love nature, and I love information.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

I'm into environmental and ecological issues, so maybe that is an avenue to go down.

An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.

It's great that we can, however subtly, offer important lessons through cartoons that it's important to protect the environment.