Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCBefore the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000