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.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

The water wears away the mountains and fills up the valleys, and if it had the power it would reduce the earth to a perfect sphere.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

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