Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BC
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If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbNature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCDrive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCWe never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851I 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 BibleNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500