Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our coconspirator, the sine qua non in all we do!
—Margaret Atwood, 2015Quotes
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCThe earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972