Quotes about Nature
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
- Bishop TD Jakes
Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.
- Ted Dekker
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
- David Brainerd
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.
- Michael Horton
Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.
- Origen
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
- John Owen
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.
- DH Lawrence
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
- Hilaire Belloc
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
- Thomas a Kempis
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
- Ernest Hemingway
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
- Henry David Thoreau