Nature, Religion, and Spirituality
Looking for God? Step Outside!
The Lotus flower blooms in the mud Nothing will grow, until you sow
NATURE = TRUTH
RELIGION = MYTHOLOGY
SPIRITUALITY = GOD = LOVE = PURPOSE
“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.” ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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NATURE IS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE THAT EVERYBODY CAN UNDERSTAND" ~J.Taylor
Religious Writings on Nature
Nature Quotes from
Spiritual and Religious Leaders
The Koran
“He created the skies and the earth for truth.
He coils the night upon the day and He coils the day upon the night."(Koran 39:5)
The Bible
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”(Psalm 19:1-4) (Also, Romans 1:20)
“According to Buddhist teaching, there is a very close interdependence between the natural environment and the sentient beings living in it.” The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Excerpt from My Tibet H.H., Buddist
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948), Political and spiritual leader of India, Hindu
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”Lao Tzu, Philosopher of ancientChina and Author of Tao Te Ching, Taoist
“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.” Martin Luther (1483–1546), German Monk, Lutheran
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.” Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic Nun and Mercinary
“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.”
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153), French abbot, Roman Catholic
“What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.” Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
“The Indian made an effort to know of spiritual things from his own observations of nature, because all truth can be found in Nature”
ELI Gatoga (1914-1983), Cherokee Indian
“Civilized people depend too much on man-made printed pages. I turn to the Great Spirit’s books which is the whole of his Creation. You can read a big part of that book if you study nature. You know, if you take all your books, lay them out under the sun, and let the snow and rain and insects work on them for a while, there will be nothing left. But the Great Spirit has provided you and me with the opportunity for study in nature’s university, the forests, the rivers, the mountains and the animals which include us.”Tatangi Mani or Walking Buffalo, Stoney Indian
"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and clouds and stars." ~Martin Luther
"The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there." ~George Bernard Shaw
“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.” ~Aldous Huxley
"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.” ~Robb Sagendorph
“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.” ~Robert Green Ingersoll
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