When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbQuotes
A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCDrive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThose things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCA tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherA righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleWe never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690