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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

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

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.