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The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak
Nature has given man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
What is art? Nature concentrated.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.