Quotes About Nature

the red kite, the falcon, any kind of kite,

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.

But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

If you come across a birdís nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself.

And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

with the bountiful harvest from the sun and the abundant yield of the seasons,

with the best of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills,

The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.

One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ëReign over us.í

Then the trees said to the fig tree, ëCome and reign over us.í

But the fig tree replied, ëShould I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?í

Then the trees said to the grapevine, ëCome and reign over us.í