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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

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

—Basho, c. 1690

Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.

—Lucretius, c. 57 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

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764
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