Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

by Neal Shusterman

Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency.

I have a love/hate relationship with nature. So often we talk of nature as a wonderful thing. The natural world. A return to nature. But that’s only seeing one side of the coin. As I mentioned before, nature is brutal, cruel, and outrageously unfair. Nature kicks the needy and crushes the weak. No discussion of nature should forget that fact. Of course, it’s hubris to think we can do better—but we try, because we have to. It is in OUR nature to challenge nature. Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don’t. And when we face the consequences of our battle against nature, we have no one but ourselves to blame. It will take a whole lot of wisdom to make sure our gains outweigh our fails.