“Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.”
“No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.”
“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”
“The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.”
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
“We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.”
“See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.”
“Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.”
“The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.”
“She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.”
“Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”
“Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.”
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”
“Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”
“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”
“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
“Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.”
“The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.”
“However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.”
“Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.”
“Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.”
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”