Nature – a high level outline of its inherent qualities, derived from the Baha’i Writings

• Nature is regulated by God; nature is God's Will. (1)
• Nature is bound by strict laws from which it cannot deviate. (2)
• The physical world is a closely integrated, cooperative, coherent entity. (3)
• Every natural phenomenon "exerteth its influence and is likewise influenced in its turn." (4)
• The existence of every created thing is dependent on the composition of simple elements; created things are not annihilated, only changed in composition; created things are myriad and numberless. (5)
• Every atom enshrines the signs of God and passes through all grades of existence. (6)
• Affinity and attraction produce fruitful results; division and discord result in decomposition and destruction. (7)
• Man, through science, transcends the laws of nature. (8)
• Creatures are "attuned to the elements that have gone into the composition" of their environments. (9)

(Prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Memorandum dated June 8, 1992)

References

Extracts from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and the Writings and Utterances of 'Abdu'l-Bahá included in the compilation on “Nature”, compiled by Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, 1988)

Extracts 1,5, 6, 9, 12

Extracts 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13

Extracts 3, 4, 5, 6

Extracts 4, 5, 8

Extracts 7, 8, 12

Extracts 2, 8, 12

Extracts 7, 13

Extracts 9, 10, 11, 13

Extract 14