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Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

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

—George Eliot, 1857

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

—Basho, c. 1690
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