“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”
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“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
“For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!”
“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
“Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.”
“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
“A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
“Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.”
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
“Nature hates calculators.”
“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”
“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?”
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.”
“Nature is not human hearted.”
“It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.”
“There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.”