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

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

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

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

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.

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

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

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

Nature is immovable.

Men argue, nature acts.

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

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