Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851
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Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCAnimals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleMen argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCNature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCIf people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686