Excellent toys are those which crafted from natural, sustainable, recyclable,
biodegradable and/or recycled materials. 
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
GOETHE, Conversations with Goethe
I must go to Nature
disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent
canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the
imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
JOHN UPDIKE, The Centaur
Man is Nature's sole mistake.
W.S. GILBERT, Princess Ida
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
ANATOLE FRANCE, The Revolt of the Angels
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Empedocles on Etna
ROBERT BURNS, First Epistle to John Lapraik
When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Method of Nature
WILLIAM COWPER, The Task
Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.
EDMUND BURKE, Letters on a Regicide Peace
LORD BYRON, Childe Harold
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.
ERIC HOFFER, Reflections on the Human Condition
All Nature wears one universal grin.
HENRY FIELDING, Tom Thumb the Great
Even minor tampering with
nature is apt to bring serious consequences, as did the introduction of
a single chemical (DDT). Genetic engineering is tampering on a
monumental scale, and nature will surely exact a heavy toll for this
trespass.
EVA NOVOTNY
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
Nature admits no lie.
THOMAS CARLYLE, Latter-Day Pamphlets
The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Citizen of the World
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Nature I
Mid-summer ... when the
alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and
almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh
intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly
indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings
the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and
unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon
the enthralled consciousness.
H. P. Lovecraft, "The Tomb"
Where a love of natural
beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as
much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of
human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the
Vatican.
HORACE MANN, A Few Thoughts for a Young Man
ABRAHAM COWLEY, Inconstancy
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Correspondences
Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.
JEROME K. JEROME, "Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad"
Look at a tree, a
flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are,
how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
ECKHART TOLLE, Stillness Speaks
WILLIAM WILSEY MARTIN, "Nature"
HENRY ABBEY, "Along the Nile"
As an authoress Nature is open to criticism, for her Book hath neither beginning, middle, nor end.
RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrtes
Munificent nature
follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her
perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how
quietly the grass grows.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
ANDREW DOWNING, "Destiny"
That which
distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature,
to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
GEORGE SANTAYANA, "Premonition," A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems
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