A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640
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Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCWe never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverb