Quotes about Nature

Any created thing must, for example, possess a limited set of characteristics which rules out the possibility of it possessing other characteristics incompatible with these.

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.

What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

God is not one more intelligible object among many, not a supreme existing thing among other existing things, not simply the highest value alongside other ethical goods. Rather, God is that which is intelligible in itself, that which exists through the power of its own essence, that which is good by its very nature.

God is a great gathering force, for by his very nature he is love; but the devil's work is to sunder, to set one against the other.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.