Top 89 Destroy Nature Quotes
#1. When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind
Gerald Durrell
#2. Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world.
Matthew Donnelly
#4. The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we'll all die.
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
#5. It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.
Ian McHarg
#6. We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
Yvon Chouinard
#7. Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?
Drats
#8. We speak of love when we destroy nature.
It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance.
Toba Beta
#10. Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.
Andrew Harvey
#11. We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
Barry White
#12. Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
Jane Goodall
#14. Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
E. O. Wilson
#15. To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm
#16. Poisonous people will try to destroy you when they recognize your power; this is because they fear what you might become.
Peprah Boasiako
#18. When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.
T.F. Hodge
#19. By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is
committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as
his enemy.
Thomas Jefferson
#20. In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature . They can't help it.
Carl Sagan
#21. No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.
Zeena Schreck
#22. When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.
Ed Begley Jr.
#23. If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.
Ayn Rand
#24. Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.
Sri Chinmoy
#25. Technology serves life. It does not destroy it. These lessons are rooted in the very foundations of Sectilius culture and law, without deviation, under threat of penalty of strictest nature.
Jennifer Foehner Wells
#26. I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
George Sand
#27. The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised.
John James Audubon
#28. There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.
Dorothea Dix
#29. Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.
Glenn Beck
#30. But it is easier to destroy than to create, and there are those whose nature it is to love destruction.
Lev Grossman
#31. For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.
Neale Donald Walsch
#32. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach
#33. No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent.
Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.
Anne Rice
#34. It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)
Alex Scarrow
#35. Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.
Brian L. Weiss
#36. Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another.
Voltaire
#37. As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.
Matthew Henry
#38. Man's usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. ... Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells
Allen Ginsberg
#39. Nature is our salvation, not technology or the intellect. Technology can neither save us nor destroy us. Technology can only aid the will, thus it is the will and our choices which determine everything.
Bryant McGill
#41. We are all like cells within the body of the Universe/ God - as are plants, animals, air, natural resources and everything down to a subatomic level. Like cells in a body, these expressions grow, create, divide, destroy, die and are reabsorbed into the Universe/God to create again.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#42. It is the nature of love to create. It is the nature of hate to destroy.
Madeleine L'Engle
#44. I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.
Douglas Coupland
#45. I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#46. The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.
Roger Wolcott Sperry
#47. People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron)
How so? (Artemis)
By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because they don't know how to acquire something, they try to destroy anyone who has it. Beauty is one of those things they hate most in others. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#48. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure.
Anne Ursu
#49. The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.
Robin Hobb
#50. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear - civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness.
Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Men's Needs.
Arundhati Roy
#51. Through nature, through the evolutionary continuum, and ecological relatedness and interdependence of all things, we are as much a part of the wolf as the wolf is a part of us. And as we destroy or demean nature, wolves, or any creature, great or small, we do no less to ourselves.
Michael W. Fox
#52. Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#53. Without stories, reality would destroy us. She says stories and myths and heroes challenge us to be worthy of a larger reality. To listen to the better angels of our nature. To be more than what we are.
Abigail Strom
#54. The poacher works in the woods, and the smuggler in the mountains or on the sea.
The towns make men ferocious because it makes them corrupt.
Mountains, sea, and forest make men reckless. They stir the wildness of men's nature,
but do not necessarily destroy what is human
Victor Hugo
#55. Environment is no one's property to destroy; it's everyone's responsibility to protect.
Mohith Agadi
#56. There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.
Radclyffe Hall
#57. A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick.
John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson
John Steinbeck
#58. Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again.
Vikas Khanna
#59. Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
Alexander Von Humboldt
#60. The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.
Nassau William Senior
#61. The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.
Seth Godin
#62. According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature.
Paulo Coelho
#63. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#64. He created for us to destroy, we created for him to destroy,in the end it was nature which suffered
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#65. If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
Meister Eckhart
#66. I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Arthur Erickson
#67. Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.
Horace Mann
#68. Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
Victor Blanchard Scheffer
#69. The Titanic was in more senses than one a fool's paradise. There is nothing that man can build that nature cannot destroy, and far as he may advance in might and knowledge and cunning, her blind strength will always be more than his match.
Filson Young
#70. The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.
George Amos Dorsey
#71. We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.
Wendell Berry
#72. What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.
Linda Hogan
#73. Let the sandcastle collapse. In its place, I will build a fortress - one that the waves of nature and time could never destroy.
Bella Forrest
#74. Satan will do everything he can to divide Christians and destroy our witness. Only the Holy Spirit can subdue our old nature and overcome it with God's love.
Billy Graham
#75. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear
civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Arundhati Roy
#76. Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, work together against those that choose to destroy it.
Jack Barker
#77. I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
Danielle Dax
#78. The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
Wernher Von Braun
#79. It's our nature. We destroy. It's the constant of our kind. No matter the color of blood, man will always fall.
Victoria Aveyard
#81. The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.
Brandon Sanderson
#82. A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.
Annie Jump Cannon
#84. The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
Helen Keller
#85. The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).
Stephen Jay Gould
#86. Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.
Lance Conrad
#87. The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.
Mark Twain
#88. I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour in a fire as if he were a banned book ... for what is the difference? Every book is imbued with the human spirit.
Sjon
#89. People don't know to make a leaf, but they know how to destroy one.
Hope Jahren
