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

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

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

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

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

Nature is immovable.

We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.

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

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

Men argue, nature acts.

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

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

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