Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BC
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Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCThose things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbIf people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965