Nature Can Be
- Feb 27, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 14, 2025
A book
Our friend
Creative life
Company enough
God's workshop
The art of God
Life in general
God’s second book
The great outdoors
A book of knowledge
A revelation of God
The best instructor
A window into wonder
Geology and wildlife
The best lesson book
A great teacher
Innumerable variation
A second soul to music
The mirror of divinity
God's beautiful creation
God’s greatest evangelist
The glorified face of God
The entire physical universe
The dynamism of visual forces
The physical world or universe
An inspiration for ornamentation
Not a place to visit - it is home
The most beautiful thing we have
The true revelation of God to man
The external world in its entirety
The living, visible garment of God
A volume of which God is the author
The universal source of information
A dictionary - we draw words from it
The material world and its phenomena
The phenomena of the physical world
The universe, with all its phenomena
The most information-rich environment
Our great lesson book, next to the Bible
Very consonant and conformable with itself
A good name for an effect whose cause is God
A religious book, with lessons for every day
Better than art because it's from the Creator
The sum total of all things in time and space
The general realm of living plants and animals
The direct expression of the divine imagination
The one song of praise that never stops singing
The chart of God, mapping out all His attributes
One great engine, made by, and held in God’s hand
The common, universal language, understood by all
An endless combination and repetition of a very few laws
The physical world made up of plants and animals and landscapes
God’s silent minister, given to us to teach us spiritual truths
Found in its entirety nowhere more than in the smallest creatures
A gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just
Natural scenery, including the plants and animals that are part of it
A fruitful source for contemplating the infinite love and power of God
A beautiful divine force of artistic expression infusing love into our souls
Too thin a screen - the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
An excellent teacher, teaching some of us more than we can ever learn from books
The best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with
The first tutor - no one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens
By and large to be found out of doors, a location where there are never enough comfortable chairs
An unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in
The glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in His sphere
The ultimate technology - a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly
All the animals, plants, and other things in the world that are not made by people, and all the events and processes that are not caused by people
The processes associated with inanimate objects - the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the earth
All the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, and growth