Pastoral Resources

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Hidden nature is secret God.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.