Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

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?

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

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

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

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

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

Nature is immovable.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.