Rabindranath Tagore on nature

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

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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