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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

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

—Basho, c. 1690

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—George Herbert, 1640

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

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