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

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

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

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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. 

Men argue, nature acts.

Nature is immovable.

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

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 is the art of God.