Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCThose things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCWhen you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbA righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleNature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherNature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCDrive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCI always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635