A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Quotes
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbMen argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965