" Nature will have none of your false systems. She is supreme, absolute as 

 is her Author. She repudiates our foolishness, and rudely dispels our illusions. 

 Work with her and she responds, aids, and rewards us in proportion to the worth of 

 our endeavours', but if we would outwit her, coerce or restrain her action, and 

 falsify her teaching, at once she gives us the lie by the sterility, destruction, and 

 death of everything we have sought to create in defiance of her laws." 



LAMARTINE: "Address to Gardeners" 



