Quotes About Nature

Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.

As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

and say to corruption, ëYou are my father,í and to the worm, ëMy mother,í or ëMy sister,í

You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.