Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.