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Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest read more
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Rainbows apologize for angry skies.
Rainbows apologize for angry skies.
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even read more
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship read more
I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.
[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .
[T]reat Nature by the sphere, the cylinder and the cone. . . .
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
[Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa read more
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
[Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta
sunt.]