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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.

—Marya Mannes, 1958

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

—John Henry Poynting, 1899

Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?

—Stanisław Lem, 1961

The oldest voice in the world is the wind.

—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950

It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.

—Wendell Berry, 1985

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

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979

In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.

—Jonathan Schell, 2000

Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.

—Aldo Leopold, 1933

It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865

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

Nature never jests.

—Albrecht von Haller, 1751