In nature all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is therefore useful, because...

For Nature is the noblest engineer, yet uses a grinding economy, working up all that is wasted to-day into to-morrow's creation; Mnot a superfluous...

Nature centers into balls, And her proud ephemerals, fast to surface and outside, Scan the profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified, A...

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Nature must change her plan ere you can be a man.

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well...

Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct...

For nature, heartless, witless nature, Will neither care nor know What stranger's feet may find the meadow And trespass there and go, nor ask amid...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of flowers, reflected...