Seneca the Younger Quotes about Nature
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
"Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", CXX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
"Quæstionum Naturalium". Book by Seneca the Younger, Book III. 27,