"See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace."

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul; That chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart."

"Natura abhorret vacuum."

"Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."

"And not from Nature up to Nature's God, But down from Nature's God look Nature through."

"There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet."

"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine!"

"Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave."

"Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out."

"And we, with Nature's heart in tune, Concerted harmonies."

"And liquid lapse of murmuring streams."

"But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills."

"Beldam Nature."

"Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?"

"O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!"

"Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise."

"Nature with folded hands seemed there, Kneeling at her evening prayer!"

"I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have."

"And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons."

"O what a glory doth this world put on For him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth Under the bright and glorious sky, and looks On duties well performed, and days well spent! For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves, Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings."

"And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee. Come, wander with me, she said, Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God."

"The natural alone is permanent."

"No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest."

"That undefined and mingled hum, Voice of the desert never dumb!"

"Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurrit."

"So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know."

"Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit."

"To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art."

"E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires."

"Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool Earth, my canopy the skies."

"What Nature has writ with her lusty wit Is worded so wisely and kindly That whoever has dipped in her manuscript Must up and follow her blindly. Now the summer prime is her blithest rhyme In the being and the seeming, And they that have heard the overword Know life's a dream worth dreaming."

"No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears."

"Whate'er he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please."

"By viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow; Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow."

"For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss."

"Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop."

"Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads."

"Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature."

"Out of the book of Nature's learned breast."

"What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh."

"Not without art, but yet to Nature true."

"Ab interitu naturam abhorrere."

"Meliora sunt ea quæ natura quam illa quæ arte perfecta sunt."

"Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord."

"Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view?"

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

"See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all."

"All argument will vanish before one touch of nature."