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

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

God, I can push the grass apart And lay my finger on Thy heart!

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Commonly we stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly to see more than the most obvious and prominent things. For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

We can never have enough of nature.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.