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| A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. |
| Ambrose Bierce |
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| All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right |
| Alexander Pope |
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| Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap |
| Vincent van Gogh |
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| But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature |
| David Hume |
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| But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end. |
| Aristotle |
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| By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
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| By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow. |
| John Dryden |
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| Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. |
| Seneca |
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| For greed, all nature is too little. |
| Seneca |
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