It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897
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Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCThe sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751