Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

Blizzards, floods, volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.

All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

This was the most anticipated natural disaster in history.

Nature—pitiless in a pitiless universe—is certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting the earth.

I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.

Typhoon damage happens when they hit land, and as humans, we've decided to destroy mangroves and hurt coral reefs. If we don't have barriers, the devastation is worse, and that is scary.

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.