We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.