One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

The groves were God's first temples.

The groves were God's first temples.

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even read more

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a read more

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would read more

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.