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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

—George Herbert, 1640

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

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

—Basho, c. 1690
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