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

Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter

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

The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

Nature never jests.

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

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