Ray Bradbury Quotes

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

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

We are a plague on the Earth.

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

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

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

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

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

It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

What have we done to the world?....... Look what we've done.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.

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

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.

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

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

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

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

Nature does not have the capacity to heal all the wounds that have been inflicted upon it by mankind.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

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.

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.