Quotes About Creation

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.

Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.

For man is by nature an artist.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.