Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCAnimals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690