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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—Basho, c. 1690
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