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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

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

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

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

—Martin Luther

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500
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