To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

The air is all softness.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

“I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.”

Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

The forests avenge themselves.

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.”

“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

“Men argue. Nature acts.”

Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

“If you want to shine like a sun, First burn like a sun.”

“Look at the sky. we are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”

“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”