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

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

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

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

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

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

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