Quotes about Nature

But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,

the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe, or the bat.

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.