There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790
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Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherWhen you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbThose things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500