Quotes About Creation

All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.