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Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.

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

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Nature is not human hearted.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

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

Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.