Quotes about Nature

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Funny that when skies were clear, he was the storm. But in the middle of the storm…He was the calm.

Because life didn't just come with better . . . it came with worse, too. A worse that God could have fixed, perhaps, if she'd let Him, so long ago. She hadn't wanted to take the risk of a broken heart. Of getting hurt over and over again. But wasn't that the nature of love? Risking betrayal? Forgiving? Wiping the slate clean and starting over? Wasn't that the nature of God?

I know grace is difficult to accept... it's in our nature to want to bargain for our redemption... but you can do nothing but receive it.