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

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

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

—George Herbert, 1640

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

—Ronald Reagan, 1965
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