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

—George Herbert, 1640

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

—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686

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

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

Nature is the art of God.

—Thomas Browne, 1635

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

—George Eliot, 1857

Nature is immovable.

—Euripides, c. 415 BC

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1790
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