"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." ― Robert Green Ingersoll Topic(s): Nature More From Robert Green Ingersoll "Courage without conscience is a wild beast." "Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity." "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science." More In Nature "It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."― Frederick Douglass "In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."― Michael Pollan