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

—Martin Luther

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

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

—George Eliot, 1857

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

—Basho, c. 1690

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

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

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back. 

—Horace, c. 25 BC