Rich with the spoils of Nature.

The flower of olden sanctities.

Nature indulgent, provident, and kind,
In all things that excell some use design'd;
The radiant sun […]
Sends from above ten thousand blessings down,
Nor is he set so high for show alone;
His beams, reviving with auspicious fire,
Freely we all enjoy what all admire.
The moon and stars, those faithful guides of night,
Are plac'd to help, not entertain, the sight.
Plants, fruits, and flow'rs, the fertile fields produce,
Not for vain ornament, but wholesome use;
Health they restore, and nourishment they give,
We see with pleasure, but we taste to live.

What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.

The nature is pleased to nature
The nature overcomes the nature
The Nature dominated nature.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Thrice happy time,
Best portion of the various year, in which
Nature rejoiceth, smiling on her works
Lovely, to full perception wrought!

So extravagant is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees,... .

O seasons, O castles,
What soul is without flaws?
All its lore is known to me,
Felicity, it enchants us all.

The observer of nature see, with admiration, that "the whole world is full of the glory of God."

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

The love of nature comes with maturing years and is one of the few compensations for growing old.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.