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

—James Hutton, 1795

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

—Ilka Chase, 1969

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

—Kalidasa, c. 450

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

—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650

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

—Jonathan Schell, 2000

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

—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794

Nature never jests.

—Albrecht von Haller, 1751

Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?

—Stanisław Lem, 1961

There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979

The oldest voice in the world is the wind.

—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

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

—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008

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

—Horace, 20 BC