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...

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