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The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.