Andy Warhol on nature

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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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