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Quotes About Creation

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
~ Philip Yancey
Man maketh a death which Nature never made.
~ Edward Young
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
~ Lucretius
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
~ Eugene Delacroix
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
~ Wallace Stevens
In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.
~ Lillian B. Rubin
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
~ Edward Abbey
The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.
~ Anthony D. Williams
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
~ Irving Stone
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
~ Robert Frost
I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
~ William Shakespeare
Nature is God's Old Testament.
~ Theodore Parker
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
~ Roger Lewin
Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?
~ Virginia Woolf
Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
~ John Milton
If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.
~ John Stuart Mill
Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.
~ Thomas Browne
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.
~ Kate Chopin