“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment”

“Earth laughs in flowers”

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher”

“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does”

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do”

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower ”