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

—Oscar Wilde, 1897

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

—Kalidasa, c. 450

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

—Horace, 20 BC

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

—Anne Sexton, 1971

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

—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794

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

—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650

Nature never jests.

—Albrecht von Haller, 1751
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