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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


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