How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Line)
Quote #7
It was a kind of a landscape religion, a consciousness of Mars as a physical space suffused with kami, which was the spiritual energy or power that rested in the land itself. (4.2.85)
The environment is so important to human beings that several different cultures have religions worshipping it. Even those that don't directly worship nature are loaded with natural imagery. Looking at you, Christmas tree.
Quote #8
[The dust] had already halved the land visible since John first saw it, and now it approached like a giant breaking wave, a billowy chocolate milk wave 10,000 meters high, with a bronze filigree foaming up and off it, leaving great curved streamers in the pink sky above. "Wow!" John cried. "Here it comes! Here it comes!" (5.7.32)
What is it about natural phenomenon that amazes so much? That's not rhetorical; we're truly curious about what you think.
Quote #9
No one would say population control, of course, it was a forbidden phrase in politics, but that's what it was in fact, and it was turning into the tragedy of the commons all over again: if one country ignored the U.N. resolutions, then nearby countries were howling for fear of being overwhelmed. (6.4.9)
Political stances have massive effects on the environment. Even the words we use to describe the environment politically can change the way we look at our world. Forget sticks and stones, words are all kinds of dangerous.