Lord Byron on nature

What’s drinking?
A mere pause from thinking!

And to his eye
There was but one beloved face on earth,
And that was shining on him.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

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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