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> [“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or the need to domesticate an environment. There is too often a deliberate rage and vengefulness at work in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/the-destructive-impulse-with-respect-to-nature-all-too-often-has/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

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## More by Robert Pogue Harrison

> [“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/irony-that-does-not-deem-itself-ironic-is-the-most-dangerous-irony-of/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“Human beings, in other words, are always already dead. This proleptic knowledge of finitude predetermines their most creative as well as their most destructive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/human-beings-in-other-words-are-always-already-dead-this-proleptic/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“And nothing . . . disquiets a rationalist more than a forest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/and-nothing-disquiets-a-rationalist-more-than-a-forest/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“Soul and habitat--we are finally in a position to know this--are correlates of one another.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/soul-and-habitat-we-are-finally-in-a-position-to-know-this-are/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/if-nothing-else-a-house-is-a-place-to-keep-books-in/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/walls-no-less-than-writing-define-civilization-they-are-monuments-of/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or the need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/the-destructive-impulse-with-respect-to-nature-all-too-often-has/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy - are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/our-basic-human-institutions-religion-matrimony-and-burial-also-law/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/when-i-m-critical-of-modern-approaches-to-ecology-i-m-really-trying/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/decadence-begins-with-the-loss-of-restraint/)

[Robert Pogue Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-pogue-harrison/)

> [“Walls protect, divide, distinguish; above all they abstract . The basic activities that sustain life . . . take place beyond walls.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-pogue-harrison/walls-protect-divide-distinguish-above-all-they-abstract-the-basic/)

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