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

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

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

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

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

Nature is the art of God.

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

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

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

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

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

We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.

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