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Quotes About Nature

In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
~ Robert Boyle
As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.
~ Robert Breault
Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.
~ Robert De Niro
Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.
~ Robinson Jeffers
There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
~ Stephen Fry
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
~ Alexander Markovich Polyakov
How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.
~ Alice Walker
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
~ Ann Voskamp
Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
~ Baruch Spinoza
God made all pleasures innocent.
~ Caroline Norton
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
~ D. H. Lawrence
There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green earth.
~ Vicki Myron
God sendeth cold after clothes.
~ William Camden
You don't have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.
~ Lucas Samaras
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
~ Mark Twain
The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me.
~ Maud Lindsay
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, you piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!
~ Stephen Colbert
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
~ David Attenborough