In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

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.

There are certain pursuits which if not wholly poetic and true do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees for instance.

It is better to do one's own duty however defective it may be than to follow the duty of another however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it never sins.

Nature is not human hearted.

He who can be and therefore is another's and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend but not to have is a slave by nature.

The moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Nature is full of genius full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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

We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.