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

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

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

The oldest voice in the world is the wind.

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

Nature never jests.

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

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

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

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

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

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

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