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Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

—George Eliot, 1857

If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

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

—Basho, c. 1690

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790
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