Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BC
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Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbDrive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCMen argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther