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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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

—Martin Luther

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686
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