Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

Man is embedded in nature.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against, it.

We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of a wildness so wild and strange and inexhaustible as Nature can never show him.