“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further”

“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child”

“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”

“All of nature is a battlefield”

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin”

“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know”