There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790
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Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherNature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686