England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.