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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

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

—Basho, c. 1690

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

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

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 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

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC