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

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Then you notice the cherry blossoms, and you see that nature is unaffected by all this. Poplar trees, the red butterflies, the fragile beauty of flowers, the sun-you see how nature is indifferent to it all.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

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.

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