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Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

—Chinese proverb

If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—Basho, c. 1690

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

—Martin Luther

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

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

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

—George Eliot, 1857

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764