Quotes about Nature

The only condition necessary for us to break out of our material limitations and attain spiritual life is that we accept the life-giving warmth of God's spirit, just as the chick receives its mother's warmth. Without that warmth, we will not take on the nature of the Spirit, and we may die without ever hatching out of this material body.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures,Above all Brother SunWho brings us the day and lends us his light.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

The good husbandman may pluck His roses and gather in His liles at midsummer, and, for ought I dare say, in the beginning of the first summer month; and He may transplant young trees out of the lower ground to the higher, where they have more of the sun, and a more free air, at any season of the year. What is that to you or me? The goods are his own.

What is warranted by the direction of nature's light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law?