Quotes About Nature

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ëHere we areí?

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?

They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.

Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.

Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?

Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.

Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting?