I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. – John Muir, 1913, in Linnie Marsh Wolfe, ed., John of the Mountains: The Unpublis
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. – Juvenal, Satires
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. – William Shakespeare