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

—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650

The oldest voice in the world is the wind.

—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950

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

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

—Kalidasa, c. 450

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

—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794

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

—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865

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

—Ilka Chase, 1969

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

—Jonathan Schell, 2000

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

—Karl Kraus, 1909

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

—Marcel Proust, c. 1920

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

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC