“Every element has a sound, a voice, a spirit, and a life.”

Describing nature as animated, vocal, and spiritually significant · Natural-philosophical writing, in translation

• Faith
• Music
• Nature

“All of creation is a symphony of joy and praise to God.”

Seeing the natural world as an ordered expression of divine joy · Scivias, in translation

• Faith
• Joy
• Nature

“The soul is symphonic, and so is the body.”

Linking human vitality with harmony and music · Theological writing, in translation

• Beauty
• Music

“The soul is not in the body as in a house, but as a hinge is in a door.”

Presenting body and soul as intimately interdependent · Theological writing, in translation

• Beauty
• Mortality

“The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured, it must not be destroyed.”

Expressing a moral responsibility towards the living earth · Treatise or letter, commonly attributed

• Nature
• Truth