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It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man – social and political – and to the entire universe as a whole.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.