Nature is the art of God.
- Sir Thomas Browne

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

The frost performs its secret ministry, unhelped by any wind.
- Coleridge

In nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read.
- Shakespeare

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, whether the summer clothe the general earth with greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch of mossy apple-tree.
- Coleridge