Famous Quotes

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

Saint Augustine on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

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

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

  e. e. cummings on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Saint Augustine

• "What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

• "Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."

• "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

• "Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."

• "Love is the beauty of the soul."