When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.

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

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

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.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter

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

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

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

Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?

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