Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCQuotes
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbI always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherNature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BC