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

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

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

—Basho, c. 1690

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

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

—George Herbert, 1640