They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.
The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.
Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.