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.

The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Nature is full of infinite reasons which have not yet passed into experience.