"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

"Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make."

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

"Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that."

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."

"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad"

"As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occurren"

"Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum"

"When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole."

"I'm not blaming it on anything because that's not my nature, ... but we certainly didn't have the energy and enthusiasm that we've played with to this point."

"I'm not blaming anybody, because that's not my nature, but we certainly didn't have the energy and enthusiasm we've had up to this point. We just didn't look like the same team out there, and I can't give you any reason exactly why."

"They travel with a constant companion, autumn."

"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."

"The unnatural, that too is natural."

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

"Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once"

"Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."

"To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone."

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."