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When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.

—Marya Mannes, 1958

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

—Barbara Ward, 1972

Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.

—Roman proverb

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

—John Henry Poynting, 1899

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

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979

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

—Wendell Berry, 1985

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter

—Emily Dickinson, 1863

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

—James Hutton, 1795

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

—D.H. Lawrence, 1920

It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865

Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?

—Stanisław Lem, 1961

In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.

—Jonathan Schell, 2000