Quotes about Nature

From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal.

We see it was the Lord's purpose to deliver nothing in his sacred oracles which we might not learn for edification. Therefore, instead of dwelling on superfluous matters, let it be sufficient for us briefly to hold, with regard to the nature of devils, that at their first creation they were the angels of God, but by revolting they both ruined themselves, and became the instruments of perdition to others.

Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

Nature's great masterpiece, an Elephant, the only harmless great thing; the giant of beasts.

Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.