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Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back. 

—Horace, c. 25 BC

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

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

—George Eliot, 1857
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