God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther
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A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleNature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Animals 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 BCAnimals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCIf people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BC