Quotes About Nature

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.