“If your goal is to reduce costs, then coal is a good idea. If the goal is a renewable fuel, coal is a bad idea. When greenhouse-gas emissions go up, environmentalists take note. Then you've got a problem”
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“If your goal is to reduce costs, then coal is a good idea. If the goal is a renewable fuel, coal is a bad idea. When greenhouse-gas emissions go up, environmentalists take note. Then you've got a problem”
“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass”
“All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child”
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”
“All of nature is a battlefield”
“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal”
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference”
“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further”
“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. ”
“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead”
“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer”
“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind, it is only the difference in the victim”
“The mosquito knows full well that he is small, he is a beast of prey”
“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.”
“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing”
“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.”
“Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses”
“The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation”
“The day is done, and the darkness, falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward, from an eagle in his flight”