The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.

Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners.