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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819

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

—Horace, c. 25 BC

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

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

—Ronald Reagan, 1965

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

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

Men argue, nature acts.

—Voltaire, 1764
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