All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.