Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved by them. We...

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence which flowers.

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

Nature has neither kernel nor shell, She is everything, all at once.

Nature is upheld by antagonism.

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially.

Nature turns all malfeasance to good.

Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for.

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though.

Nature never sends a great man onto the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.