Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCQuotes
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherNature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverb