Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Bring out your social remedies! They will fail, they will fail, every one, until each man has his feet somewhere upon the soil.

Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise, many male children may be underdeveloped, or their genitals deformed or hidden and it is assumed that they are girls.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.