Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Men argue, nature acts.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Nature is immovable.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.