Nature is the art of God.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men argue, nature acts.

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

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