"The stinking corpse flower smells like a rotting corpse to attract carrion beetles and flesh flies, which are its pollinators. Nature is both beautiful and repulsive."

"The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves."

"Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds."

"These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence."

"There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are a…"