There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790
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Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCThose things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCNature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCAnimals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851