" Nature, the vicar of the almightie Lord."
Chaucer.
" Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom."
Carlyle.
" 'Tis elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand.
Scripture authentic ! uncorrupt by man."
Young.
" Nature gives healthy children much ; how much !
Wise education is a wise unfolding of this ;
Often it unfolds itself better of its own accord."
Goethe.
" What more felicitie can fall to creature
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
And to be lord of all the works of Nature,
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,
To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature."
Edmund Spencer.
"Such, said Adoam, are the sentiments of this sagacious people, who
have acquired wisdom only by the study of Nature."
Telemachus.