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

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

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
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