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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—George Herbert, 1640

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

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

—Basho, c. 1690

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC
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