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The very order, disposition, beauty, change, and motion of the world and of all visible things silently proclaim that it could only have been made by God, the ineffably and invisibly Great and the ineffably and invisibly Beautiful.

Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Genesis 2:15

Through heaven and earth and sea, through wood and stone, through all creation visible and invisible, I offer veneration to the Creator and Master and Maker of all things. For the creation does not venerate the Maker directly and by itself, but it is through me that the heavens declare the glory of God, through me the moon worships God, through me the stars glorify Him, through me the waters and showers of rain, the dews and all creation, venerate God and give Him glory.

Leontios of Cyprus (556-634)