Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Quotes
Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbIf people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764