A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Nature She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonm ...