Quotes About Nature

Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?

Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

and I declared: ëYou may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stopí?

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?