Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable read more

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other read more

As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.