Quotes About Nature

Though the cross and everything leading up to it violate our sensibilities and we are rightly aghast, the reality is that human beings have never liked God very much. At the cross, the nature of God was most fully revealed. As a result, human contempt was also most fully revealed and brought to a laser-like focus and intensity.

We must hate the evil and ungodly assumptions of the world, we must hate our own sinful nature, and we must hate Satan. To accomplish these tasks demands the most powerful resources we have: the Word, the Spirit, and the body of Christ.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

Tante Atie once said that love is like rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Two mountains can never meet but perhaps you and I can meet again. I am coming to your waterfall

All could see the holly now bristling green. From every cut and wound and point from which a parted limb had gone, a hundred prickly, scorning tongues.

Valentine Weather Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.