Quotes About Nature

The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.

No bird of prey knows that path; no falconís eye has seen it.

Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.

The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.

The ocean depths say, ëIt is not in me,í while the sea declares, ëIt is not with me.í

It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.

For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,

when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.