Quotes about Nature
The human seed, this mass from which I was formed, is totally corrupt with faults and sins. The material itself is faulty. The clay, so to speak, out of which this vessel began to be formed is damnable. What more do you want? This is how I am; this is how all men are. Our very conception, the very growth of the foetus in the womb, is sin, even before we are born and begin to be human beings.
— Martin Luther
So we are not sinners because we commit this or that sin, but we commit them because we are sinners first.
— Martin Luther
it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.
— Martin Luther
I know a beautiful garden, where there are a great many children in fine little coats, and they go under the trees and gather beautiful apples and pears, cherries and plums; they sing and run about and are as happy as they can be. Sometimes they ride on nice little ponies, with golden bridles and silver saddles. I asked the man whose garden it is, "What little children are these?" And he told me, "They are little children who love to pray and learn and are good.
— Martin Luther
But grace has changed my nature for the better, to keep me from joining them and shedding innocent blood.
— Martin Luther
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
— Martin Luther
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind's creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness — yea, the divine nature — appear in man and the universe never to disappear. -Mary Baker Eddy (SH 509:24)
— Mary Baker Eddy
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about
— Oscar Wilde
One should love animals. They are so tasty.
— Anonymous
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.
— Eleanor Roosevelt