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

Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.

A world is sooner destroyed than made.

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

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

The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.

When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.

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

The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.

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

It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.

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

Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.