Early modern Puerto Rican culture displays the push and pull of ecophobia (hatred of Nature’s violence) and ecophilia (belief in Nature’s benevolence). The environment was greatly important in the lives and beliefs of Taino people, accordingly we explore paleotempestology, theories about the hurricanes that affected them, as this chapter considers how the earliest Puerto Rican culture processed disaster. We then study chroniclers like Cristopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de León, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Fray Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, and Juan de Castellanos. We consider storytelling practices about the natural world that reflected the socio-political forces of the early colony as well as the over-arching religious ethos of those times. We foreground these tales with scientific and historical data as we explore early modern climate anxiety.