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In every life there are events that reshape one’s sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.
He believed that men, when confronted with a vast plenitude of anything, feel an irresistible urge to take it all, then to smash and destroy what they cannot use.”
That world he wanted them to know had vanished as smoke deserts the dying embers that made it.
She resembled the chrysalis of a luna moth.
Nothing in the natural world, no forest, no river, no insect nor leaf has any intrinsic value to men. All is worthless, utterly dispensable unless we discover some benefit to ourselves in it—even the most ardent forest lover thinks this way. Men behave as overlords. They decide what will flourish and what will die. I believe that humankind is evolving into a terrible new species and I am sorry that I am one of them.
