Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another- killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.

Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants, and law-givers are ever at their wit's end devising. The hall and the theater and the church have been i…

So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. An…

One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look int…

Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.

I long for rural and domestic scenes, for the warbling of Birds and the Prattle of my Children. Don't you think I am somewhat poetical this morning, for one of…

Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so…