Quotes About Nature

the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;

and the lizard can be caught in oneís hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.

There are three things that are stately in their stride, and four that are impressive in their walk:

Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.

I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.

To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a motherís womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.

before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,

when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.

I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaohís chariots.