Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCQuotes
Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCI always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleNature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherMen argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverb