A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.

Nature never jests.

There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.

There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.

It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.

It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.

We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.

Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.

It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.