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.

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

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

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

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

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