“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
“It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.”
“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.”
“To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
“What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?”
“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”
“The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.”
“Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.”
“Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”
“Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.”
“Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.”
“If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.”
“Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.”
“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
“Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.”
“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.”
“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.”
“Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.”
“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.”
“Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the ''correspondence'' through which we may know our boundless selves.”
“As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.”
“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”
“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
“Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.”
“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ''I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.''”
“I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.”
“And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.”
“Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.”