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If you were to look at every creature from the beginning of creation to the end of time, whether it were the most radiant angel or the tiniest worm, you would see in it signs of God’s goodness and His overflowing love.

Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Anyone able to investigate these beautiful features of creation could find in them the marvelous light of the wisdom of God. Would that I could as subtly see them and as competently tell of them as I am able ardently to love them. For I am delighted because it is very sweet and pleasant frequently to deal with these topics in which the senses are educated by reason and love is roused by emulation.

Hugh of St. Victor (1096-1141)