The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.

It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.

There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

Nature never jests.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?

A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.

Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.

It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.