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

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

Nature never jests.

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

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

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

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

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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!

When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.

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

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

The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.