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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

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

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

—George Herbert, 1640