There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbA tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCI always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BC