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Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

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

—George Eliot, 1857

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

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

—Martin Luther

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

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