Quotes About Nature

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

Cosmic love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/ dislike them or not.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.