A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbA righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleAnimals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCNature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther