Natural World Quotes

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

… nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving

We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

I love nature, and I love information.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

I think it's really important to be outdoorsy.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

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

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

God made the country, and man made the town.

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.