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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

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

—George Herbert, 1640

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

—Lucretius, c. 57 BC

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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—Martin Luther

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

—The Bible

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

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

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

—George Eliot, 1857

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

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

—Basho, c. 1690