This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad….Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of...

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am free from the distractions constantly arising in civilized life from social...