If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988
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I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790