Quotes About Nature

They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

Let the sea resound, and all that fills it; let the fields exult, and all that is in them.

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth.

But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ëGive your daughter to my son in marriage.í Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?

darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,

but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.

His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.

He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.

He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.