“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”
“If only we could be back there right now, a soft rain falling, in the cabin, the woodstove.”
“Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet: softly, as though the night were teeming with a host of minute, dark beings.”
“Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.”
“The sheer weight [of human population] threatens that magnificent kaleidoscope of other living things which also depend on... natural sysytems.”
“March, rain at the windows, and he had to be up at five the next morning. He listened to the click and patter of drops against the panes.”