Quotes About Nature

Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.

“Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have sealed the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.

Then every island fled, and no mountain could be found.

And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.