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Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

—Basho, c. 1690

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

—George Herbert, 1640

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

—Chinese proverb

Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back. 

—Horace, c. 25 BC

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

—Martin Luther