Quotes About Nature

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

The source of nature is spirit.

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious th

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.

I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.

The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things

The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.

Monkeying around with other apes, a monkey was made - called, HUMAN. God is great!