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

—Martin Luther

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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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

—George Herbert, 1640

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

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

—George Eliot, 1857
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