Quotes about Nature
One foggy night I was walking the dogs down the lane and heard the geese, very close overhead, calling, calling, their marvellous strange cry, as they flew by. I think that is what our own best prayer must sound like when we send it up to heaven.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Lords of fire and earth and water, Lords of moon and wind and sky, Come now to the Old Man's daughter, Come from fathers long gone by. Bring blue from a distance eye. Lords of water, earth, and fire, Lords of wind and snow and rain, Give to my heart's desire. Life as all life comes with pain, But blue will come to us again.
— Madeleine L'Engle
we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is the nature of love to create, and no matter what we do to creation, that love is still there, creating; in the young man who is holding his jacket closed across his chest; in you; in me.
— Madeleine L'Engle
And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, All these I place By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
— Madeleine L'Engle
Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Whatever we give, we have to give out of love. That, I believe, is the nature of God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you pray for a rainbow you pray for rain too.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf.
— Wendell Berry