Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Quotes
Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCNature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbIf people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640