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If there's a power above us, he must delight in virtue.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?-- To its own impulse every creature stirs; Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Nature means Necessity.

At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!

Rich with the spoils of nature.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.

I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God--the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures; I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward, Nature's good And God's.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

See one promontory one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap--that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.

reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .

Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.

Not without art, but yet to Nature true.

Nature abhors annihilation.