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

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

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

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

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

Men argue, nature acts.

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

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

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

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

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

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