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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

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

—Martin Luther
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