Quotes About Nature

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

and sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.