Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

My sun sets to rise again.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

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.”