"Who would have suspected so large and cold and thick-skinned a thing to be so sensitive? Yet it has its law to which …"

"In the silicious matter which the water deposits is perhaps the bony system, and in the still finer soil and organic …"

"Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this…"

"The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the …"

"You find thus in the very sands an anticipation of the vegetable leaf. No wonder that the earth expresses itself outw…"

"The very globe continually transcends and translates itself, and becomes winged in its orbit. Even ice begins with de…"

"They are not green like the pines, nor gray like the stones, nor blue like the sky; but they have, to my eyes, if pos…"

"What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. It is the law of average. Such a rule of the two diameter…"

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat-Geeta, since whose com…"

"The Maker of this earth but patented a leaf. What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, that we may tur…"