A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that then I want out.

We talk of our mastery of nature which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves first to her ways.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

Those little nimble musicians of the air that warble forth their curious ditties with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year or next year but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

The ground we walk on the plants and creatures the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy bound together by cosmic harmony.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

A light wind swept over the corn and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Nature is so powerful so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

How strange that nature does not knock and yet does not intrude!

Winter is nature's way of saying 'Up yours.'

We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.

I am two with nature.

Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.