Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Nature is the art of God.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.