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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

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

—Basho, c. 1690

We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

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

—George Herbert, 1640

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

I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

—George Eliot, 1857

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

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

—Martin Luther

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC