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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

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

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

—George Herbert, 1640

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

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

Nature’s rules have no exceptions.

—Herbert Spencer, 1851

I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500