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

—George Herbert, 1640

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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

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

—Basho, c. 1690

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

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
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