"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -- author and essayist E.B. White, author of "Stuart Little" and "Charlotte's Web," and long time contributor to The New Yorker.
White wrote those words in a simpler time, when awareness of the coming climate crisis was still many years away. As our planet faces existential threats from climate change, we have too many in power that think we can outwit or outlast the crisis. Literally, our planet is on fire, thanks to years of reckless burning of fossil fuels and the creation of a devastating "greenhouse effect."
(photo: White at the typewriter in his boat house. Bass Harbor Library)
