If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988
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We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleI always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverb