Quotes about Nature
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
- CS Lewis
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
- Charles Dickens
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
- Margaret Mead
The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
- Maya Angelou
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
- Thomas Merton
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
- John Calvin
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
God answered the prayers of animals.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
- Oswald Chambers