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Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

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

—George Eliot, 1857

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

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

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

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

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

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

—George Herbert, 1640