Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Quotes
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherNature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCA tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbA garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The Bible