Nature surpasses nurture. – Proverb

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. – Christian Nestell Bovee

Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrushs eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. – Gerard Manley Hopkins