When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it hitched to the rest of the universe.

It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

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.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

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.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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.