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Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back. 

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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

—George Eliot, 1857

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

—Basho, c. 1690

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

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

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

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

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686