Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.

Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is read more

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man

Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

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.