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

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

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

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

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

Nature is the art of God.

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

Nature is immovable.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

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

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