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.

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

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

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

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!

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