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

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

Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.

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

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

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

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

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

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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

Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter

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

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!