Nature's Mutiny Quotes

“The peak of the climate episode we know as the Little Ice Age coincides with massive changes in European societies. To some extent at least, improved agricultural techniques, stronger and more international markets, and an increasingly globalized system of economic domination (of growth based on exploitation) allowed Europeans to develop more successful responses to climate change and to the hardships it inflicted. These responses were answered in their turn by transformations in every aspect of culture and society.”
― Philipp Blom, Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

“Cursed be he by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies down and cursed be he when he rises up. Cursed be he when he goes out and cursed be he when he comes in.”
― Philipp Blom, Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

“Some 110,000 witch trials occurred at this time in Europe, roughly half of them ending in conviction and execution”
― Philipp Blom, Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

“Tax records show that the Viennese had an average per capita consumption of 150 liters of wine per year—i.e., half a bottle a day.”
― Philipp Blom, Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present