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Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back. 

—Horace, c. 25 BC

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

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

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

—Basho, c. 1690

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

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

—George Eliot, 1857

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Martin Luther

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

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