Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Beauty without expression is boring.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.