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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

—George Herbert, 1640

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

—Basho, c. 1690

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

—Ronald Reagan, 1965
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