The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650Quotes
The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
It 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.
It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.
—Karl Kraus, 1909A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC