Quotes about Nature

At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nature.

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

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

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human

Since the survival impulse in nature is transmuted into two different and contradictory spiritualized forms, which we may briefly designate as the will-to-live-truly and the will-to-power, man is at variance with himself. The power of the second impulse places him more fundamentally in conflict with his fellowman than democratic liberalism realizes.

What an excellent life it is to live in the studies and preaching of Christ. How excellent to be still searching into his mysteries or feeding on them, to be daily in the consideration of the blessed nature, works, or ways of God!

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.