| NATURE See also: creation; evolution | 大自然 |
| Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a
source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. Lorraine Anderson 自我記事以來，大自然一直是我的慰藉、靈感、冒險和喜悅的源泉；它是我的家、我的老師、我的伴侶。 |
| Art is man's nature: Nature
is God's art. Philip James Bailey 藝術是人的天賦；大自然則是上帝的藝術。 |
| Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. Isaac Newton 大自然總是以最簡單的方式作事情。 |
| All things are artificial,
for nature is the art of God. Sir Thomas Browne 一切東西都是人工的，縱若大自然也是上帝所做的藝術品。 |
| Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you
violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. Luther Burbank 大自然法則斷不容被違背。如果你違背她的法則，你將成為你自己的檢察官、法官、陪審團及行刑者。 |
| Whenever man comes up with a
better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. James Carswell 只要人發明一個較高明的捕鼠器，大自然很快就會產生更聰明的老鼠。 |
| Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the
woods before sunrise. George Washington Carver 再沒有比日出前的森林更美好的景致了。 |
| I've always regarded nature
as the clothing of God. Alan Havhamess 我經常認為大自然是上帝的衣裳。 |
| We have to remember that what we observe is not
nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Werner Heisenberg 我們需要記得，我們觀察的並非自然本身，而是自然配合我們存疑方法的展示。 |
| All that is sweet,
delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of
seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of
smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the
veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety
so much of its own nature. William Law 這世上最美妙、歡樂及親切的事物，存在於晴朗的天空、美麗的四季、光明的喜悅、聲音的旋律、顏色的美妙、芬芳的氣味、寶石的華麗，這些都是上天穿過世間的面紗，以千變萬化、稍縱即逝的方式彰顯自己的本質。 |
| No sight is more provocative of awe than is the
night sky. Llewelyn Powys 在沒有夜空更能引起人的敬畏之心。 |
| Man is a complex being; he
makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. Gil Stern 人是挺複雜的生物；他使沙漠開花、湖泊乾涸。 |
| The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient
while nature cures the disease. Voltaire (1694 - 1778) 醫學的藝術就在於當大自然在醫治疾病時如何取悅病人。 |
| Climb the mountains and get
their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The
winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares
will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. John Muir 登上高山並領受大自然的佳音。大自然的平安會進入你心中，就像陽光遍灑林間。風會將甦醒的沁涼吹入你的心中，暴風會帶給你能力，而憂慮將遠離你，如同秋天的翩翩落葉。 |
| Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics 大自然不作無用之事。 |
| The goal of life is living
in agreement with nature. Zeno (335 BC - 263 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 生命的目標就是與大自然一致。 |
| Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. Emerson 大自然與書籍屬於看見它們的雙眼。 |
| There are three principal
means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation.
Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result
of that combination. Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) 這裡有三個獲得知識的主要工具...觀察大自然、思想以及試驗。透過觀察收集事實；藉著思索整合這些事實，而試驗則可以鑑定整合的結果。 |
| Our observation of nature must be diligent, our
reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined;
and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) 我們對大自然的觀察必須用心，思想必須深入，並且正確的試驗。我們很少看到三者並具的，也因此，具創造力的天才並不多見。 |
| The world is the first Bible
that God made for the instruction of man. Clemens Alexandrinus 世界就是上帝所造的第一本啟迪人的聖經。 |
| Open your eyes, and the whole worlds is full of God. Jacob Boehme 張開你的雙眼，你會看見整個世界充滿上帝。 |
| What are the heaven, the
earth, the sea, but a sheet of royal paper, written all over with the wisdom and power of
God? Thomas Brooks 天地洋海豈不是一頁尊貴紙張，寫滿上帝的智慧與權能？ |
| Nature is the art of God. Thomas Broone 大自然是上帝的藝術。 |
| If we would avoid a
senseless natural philosophy we must always start with this principle, that everything in
nature depends upon the will of God, and that the whole course of nature is only the
prompt carrying into effect of his orders. John Calvin 如果我們想要避免了無生趣的自然哲學，我們必須從這樣的原則開始，那就是自然萬物根基於上帝的旨意，宇宙的運行就在執行祂的意旨。 |
| Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is
God. William Cowper 大自然只不過是上帝所生果效的名稱。 |
| The laws of nature are but
the thoughts and agencies of God, the modes in which he works and carries out the designs
of his providence and will. Tryon Edwards 自然的定律只不過是上帝的思想及力量，是祂行事並執行祂的眷顧及旨意的方式。 |
| Nature is a first volume, in itself incomplete, and
demanding a second volume, which is Christ. Charles Gore 大自然是不完整第一篇，需補以第二篇，那就是基督。 |
| God's will is the law of
universal nature. William S. Plumer 上帝的旨意是宇宙萬物的定律。 |
| Causes in nature do not obviate the necessity of a
Cause in nature. George John Romans 大自然之中的一切事物之因並不抹煞大自然唯一之因的必要性。 |