Failure Quote by E.M. Cioran

“all started with the bees. Not with famine, floods or fires, although they came later. No, the human race was brought to its knees…

— B.C. Nyren

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

“...the natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution,…

— Michael Crichton

“Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!”

— Jules Verne

Man is nature's sole mistake.

— Anonymous

“Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten, And thereby the warm life of reason congealed. A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam, Like…

— Rumi Masnavi-I Ma'navi

“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the future there…

— Nick Harkaway

“nature as chameleon”

— bell hooks

“The last rain had come at the beginning of April and now, at the first of June, all but the hardiest mosquitoes had left…

— Jane Hamilton

“To a good approximation, all species are insects.”

— Anonymous

“There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

— Francine Pascal