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In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

Earth laughs in flowers.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.