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

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

Nature is immovable.

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.

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

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