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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

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

—George Eliot, 1857

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851
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