I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the…

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“The Judeo-Christian view, in contrast, historically regarded nature as the nonliving creation of a rational God, not cyclic but with a definite beginning and…

— Gary B. Ferngren

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured,…

— Donald Worster

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so…

— Quentin Bryce

“Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself…

— Mark Dever

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that…

— Ronald Cunningham

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

— Richard Louv

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

— John Drinkwater

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements…

— Harold Bloom

“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many…

— Tim Winton

I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

— Kathryn Bigelow

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

— Phil Harding

One can never study nature too much and too hard

— Vincent Van Gogh

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan