Robert Browning on nature

Love is energy of life.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

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