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?

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

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

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

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

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