Walter Scott

"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn." - Walter Scott

Francis Bacon

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding." - Francis Bacon

e. e. cummings

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful." - e. e. cummings

H. G. Wells

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H. G. Wells

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Moonlight is sculpture." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Walter Gilbert

"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us." - Walter Gilbert

Edward Young

"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars." - Edward Young