Nature abhors a vacuum.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin ...

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Give me what the tree has and what it won't lose and give me the power to lose what the tree has.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and Music in its roar: II love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.