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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.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.