Quotes About Destruction

Tahiti has always been like a girl. She should be approached with caution, taking plenty of time and be enjoyed. Instead tourists with plenty of money are flinging themselves on the island and destroying the place.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

I've covered tornadoes and other natural disasters. I wasn't on the ground for Katrina. But as our helicopter descended toward Mexico Beach, I just saw an entire town gone. Leveled, with the exception of a condo still standing here and there.

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

When I was a boy, my parents would buy me a new toy and I would destroy it. Oh man, I would destroy it. I don't know why I would do such a thing. I was a little rough when I was a little kid.

The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death and mercy.

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.