“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”– Marcus Tullius Cicero Related Quotes “The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.”– Rupert Sheldrake “As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”– Victor Hugo “Great art picks up where nature ends.”– Marc Chagall