The child of civilization, remote from wild nature and all her ways, is more susceptible to her grandeur than is her untutored son who has looked at her and lived close to her from childhood up, on terms of prosaic familiarity.

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

Accuse not Nature! she hath done her part; Do thou but thine!

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity... and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.

Those honour Nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything, even on theology.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things, and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

The day, water, sun, moon, night-I do not have to purchase these things with money.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.