What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

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

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

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

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.