Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

But only God can make a tree.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.

In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning.

In my own faith tradition, these questions have been very important. It has always been easiest for me to apprehend God in the natural world. I love to go to church, but when I really want to feel the presence of the divine I'm more likely to head up into the mountains.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

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

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too. And that, by some miracle, the language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.