tag name Nature type: Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Science: natural, social, and applied web link bahai-library.com/tags/Nature variations or mis-spellings natural world; laws of nature related tags - Concepts; – Concepts, Philosophical; – Concepts, Science; Biology; Creation; Interdependence and interconnectedness; Necessary relationships of the realities of things referring tags – Lakes; Air; Animals; Biodiversity; Birds; City versus country life; Clouds; Deserts; Environment; Fishes; Flowers; Forests; Gardeners; Gardens; Human nature; Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom); Moon; Mountains; Murgh-Mahallih (Abode of the Birds, Iran); Nature versus culture; Oceans and seas; Plants; Rain; Spring; Storms; Sun; Tree (metaphor); Trees; Valleys; Water (metaphor) Inventory subject Nature and God's will; Perfection; imperfection of nature; Power of the mind over nature notes See also:
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í Sacred Writings, Chapter 13, section "Nature"
– Covenant Library Unified Index
selected quotations
(authoritative sources)These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:
"... Say: Nature in its essence is the embodiment of My Name, the Maker, the Creator. Its manifestations are diversified by varying causes, and in this diversity there are signs for men of discernment..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Lawḥ-i-Ḥikmat (Tablet of Wisdom), ¶14 (BH00223)
"Nature is that condition or reality which outwardly is the source of the life and death, or, in other words, of the composition and decomposition, of all things.
This nature is subject to a sound organization, to inviolable laws, to a perfect order, and to a consummate design, from which it never departs. To such an extent is this true that were you to gaze with the eye of insight and discernment, you would observe that all things—from the smallest invisible atom to the largest globes in the world of existence, such as the sun or the other great stars and luminous bodies—are most perfectly organized, be it with regard to their order, their composition, their outward form, or their motion, and that all are subject to one universal law from which they never depart..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, 1.1-2 (AB01029)"... By nature is meant those inherent properties and necessary relations derived from the realities of things. And these realities of things, though in the utmost diversity, are yet intimately connected one with the other. For these diverse realities an all-unifying agency is needed that shall link them all one to the other. For instance, the various organs and members, the parts and elements, that constitute the body of man, though at variance, are yet all connected one with the other by that all-unifying agency known as the human soul, that causeth them to function in perfect harmony and with absolute regularity, thus making the continuation of life possible. The human body, however, is utterly unconscious of that all-unifying agency, and yet acteth with regularity and dischargeth its functions according to its will..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Tablet to Dr. Auguste Forel (AB00020)"... Now concerning nature, it is but the essential properties and the necessary relations inherent in the realities of things. And though these infinite realities are diverse in their character yet they are in the utmost harmony and closely connected together. As one’s vision is broadened and the matter observed carefully, it will be made certain that every reality is but an essential requisite of other realities. Thus to connect and harmonize these diverse and infinite realities an all-unifying Power is necessary, that every part of existent being may in perfect order discharge its own function..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Tablet to Dr. Auguste Forel (AB00020)"... the growth and development of the vegetable world is impossible without the existence of the animal kingdom, and the maintenance of animal life is inconceivable without the co-operation of the vegetable kingdom. Of like kind are the relationships that exist among all created things. Hence it was stated that co-operation and reciprocity are essential properties which are inherent in the unified system of the world of existence, and without which the entire creation would be reduced to nothingness..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Tablet addressed to the Bahá'ís of Mosul (AB00446), published in Compilation on Huqúqu'lláh, #23
"Bahá’u’lláh loved the beauty and verdure of the country. One day He passed the remark: “I have not gazed on verdure for nine years. The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies...”
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá's words translated by Shoghi Effendi, quoted in Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era [ABU0583].
bahaidata.org Q4632 · Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.) references en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature; bahaiquotes.com/subject/nature-beauty; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Nature
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