Destructive Quote by Wendell Berry

We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the…

— Lauren Oliver

“Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange New World,"…

— Jeanette Winterson

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens,…

— Michael Smith

We find ourselves heading fully into an era of mass extinction.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The entire legacy of humanity will be only one thing, a line of red goop in the paleo-oceanographic record, a time of no calcium…

— David Vann

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

— Tom McMillan

We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think…

— Greg Peterson

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.

— Philip Pullman

We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our…

— David Grinspoon

The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit…

— Al Gore