Quotes About Destruction

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.

Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]