“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg ”

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

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain”

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones”

“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her”

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind”