The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.

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

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!

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

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Nature never jests.

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

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

Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.

The oldest voice in the world is the wind.

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

When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.

Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.