To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

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.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, read more

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; read more

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.

Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.