Natural Dominance Quotes

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.