Quotes about Nature

This word "other" [alius], however, in the masculine sense, means only a distinction of "suppositum"; and hence we can properly say that "the Son is other than the Father," because He is another "suppositum" of the divine nature, as He is another person and another hypostasis.

Also pertinent to these spirits is the execution of divine works which are done outside the order of nature, for these are most sublime among the divine ministrations... And if there be anything else that is universal and primary in the carrying out of divine ministrations, it is proper to assign it to this order.

Since Eden's freshness and man's fall, no rose has been original.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

which is a fancy way of saying that nature tends to bring things to disorder.

The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be needs a cause.

Natural laws are not immutable because they are descriptions of what happens, not prescriptions of what must happen.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. (...). Pointing through the window of the hut, she said 'This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness.' (...). Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. 'Yes.' What did it say to her? She answered, 'It said to me, I am here - I am here - I am life, eternal life.

More and more I felt that she was present, that she was with me; I had the feeling that I was able to touch her, able to stretch out my hand and grasp hers. The feeling was very strong: she was there. Then, at that very moment, a bird flew down silently and perched just in front of me, on the heap of soil which I had dug up from the ditch, and looked steadily at me.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.