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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, 2015

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

—Horace, 20 BC

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

—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650

It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.

—Wendell Berry, 1985

The oldest voice in the world is the wind.

—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950

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

—Marcel Proust, c. 1920

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

The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.

—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1897

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

—Ilka Chase, 1969

Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter

—Emily Dickinson, 1863

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

—Theodore Roszak, 1972