Lord Byron Quotes

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

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

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

We are a plague on the Earth.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the seas…. God said “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”

Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the whole world is a crime scene: People eat space with their bodies; they are rain decayers; the wind is slaughtered when they move. A retaliation is probably coming. Should a person cease to move, she would cease to kill the sky, and the world might begin to recover.

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.