The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

The stars that nature hung in heaven and filled their lamps with everlasting oil give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye looking on finds its own.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves chearful meadows and high distant forests which in grand order presented themselves to view.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds in wheels shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

A light wind swept over the corn and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

I knew of course that trees and plants had roots stems bark branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.