Quotes about Nature
All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
- Ecclesiastes 1:7
I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.
- Ecclesiastes 2:5
I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
- Ecclesiastes 3:18
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
- Ecclesiastes 3:21
If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
- Ecclesiastes 11:3
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
- Ecclesiastes 11:5
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
- Ecclesiastes 12:2
when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,
- Ecclesiastes 12:4
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.
- Song of Solomon 1:14
How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
- Song of Solomon 1:16