Such is the audacity of man that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature yea and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature rather than being the lords over nature.

Abstraction is real probably more real than nature.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

To make a love story you need a couple of young people but to reflect on the nature of love you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Hidden nature is secret God.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.