Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.Henry David Thoreau