If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988
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A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleMen argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCNature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCNature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640