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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

—Basho, c. 1690

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

—Martin Luther

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

—Chinese proverb

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500
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