Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish, a grampus or sperm whale, because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.