History Quotes / NatureIsNotNice

-->--'''[[Creator/KenWatanabe Ishiro Serizawa]],''' ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''

-->'''John Stuart Mill''', ''On Nature''

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--> '''[[PowersThatBe The Voice in the Whirlwind]]''' from the [[Literature/TheBible biblical]] ''Literature/BookOfJob''.

->''The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins''', ''River Out of Eden''

->''"In sober truth, nearly all the things which men are hanged or imprisoned for doing to one another are nature's every-day performances. Killing, the most criminal act recognised by human laws, Nature does once to every being that lives; and, in a large proportion of cases, after protracted tortures such as only the greatest monsters whom we read of ever purposely inflicted on their living fellow creatures."''
-->'''John Stuart Mill''', ''On Nature''

->''"The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control... and not the other way around."''
-->--'''[[Creator/KenWatanabe Ishiro Serizawa]],''' ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''

->''This is maybe 30 wasps against 30,000 bees and the 30,000 bees do not stand a chance.''\\
''Behold the hornets systematically seize them with huge, wicked jaws and literally fucking cut them apart, one by one by one by fucking one. In three hours, there are piles of limbs and heads and just fucking bits of things that could possibly have been alive at one point, and the hornets have stormed the hive and flown away with all the bee's children. Who will then be eaten.''\\
''Nature is fucking hardcore.''
-->--[[http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_the-5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html "The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World"]], ''Website/{{Cracked}}''

-->--'''[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=366447 Disciple of the Old Ways]]''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->''The [[EarthMother Witch of Life]] is said to be a goddess of nature, adaptation, and natural cycles. She presides over her namesake in all its manifestations. She is a god of love, in a way, but not a god of mercy.\\
If she loves the deer as she would her own child, then the wolf which tears at its flesh is her child as well. Smallpox was her child, and the furor with which humankind fought and destroyed it was a part of the natural world as well, and she smiled upon the both of them and pronounced it all good.''
-->-- ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3240311?view_full_work=true Guide to the Zodiac]]'', a ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fic

->''"It is because Nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation. One thinks of wild animals as savage, but the fiercest of them begins to look almost domesticated when one considers the viciousness required of a survivor in the sea; as for the insects, their lives are sustained only by intricate processes of fantastic horror. There is no conception more fallacious than the sense of cosiness implied by 'Mother Nature.' Each species must strive to survive, and that will do, by every means in its power, however foul--unless the instinct to survive is weakened by conflict with another instinct."''
-->-- '''Gordon Zellaby''', ''Literature/TheMidwichCuckoos''

->''"I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I’m sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature’s wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior."''
-->-- '''Lord Vetinari''', ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals''

->''"Compassion? Empathy towards species outside your own? Ethics? Morals? Laws? Those are things CIVILIZATION invented! You ponies brought them into being when you decided 'I will care about more than whether I live and reproduce.' You decided some things were greater then your own life! You decided some things were greater than passing off GENETIC legacies. You learned what love was when Celestia taught you how to care about something other than your DNA. The natural world? When did you last see parasprites and cockatrices have political debates? Nature's balance doesn't TOLERATE kindness Flutter-girl. The sick and hurt you care for? You go AGAINST nature's will when you step in and tend to them and heal them. They're SUPPOSED to die to make way for the superior survivors. But because you have an empathy sphere larger than the sun, you step in, you CHEAT Fluttershy, you break Darwin The Dragon's law and allow the 'weak' to thrive not making room for the 'strong.' Kindness goes AGAINST nature Fluttershy! You're as unnatural as me."''
-->-- '''Fluttercruel,''' ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries''

->OHHH THAT LITTLE RAT-LOOKIN' THING JUST GOT ATE! DAMN, NATURE, YOU SCARY!
-->-- Television Commentator, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

->''"And so, the endless circle of life comes to an end, meaningless and grim. Why did they live, and why did they die? No reason."''
-->-- '''Narrator''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E13Naturama Naturama]]"

->''"I just don't understand this idea that nature is some entity that wants all of us to live long and prosper but humans are corrupting and perverting it into this horrible abomination that we have these days. It's so incredibly sad. Every day you walk outside and you're not mauled by an animal? That is you defying nature's course. Every day a baby is born without polio, that is you slapping nature in the face."''
-->--''LetsPlay/{{Critikal}}''

-->-- '''Lord Vetinari''', ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals''

'''Kyle:''' Yeah Fragile my ass!

-->''Literature/TheBible'', ''[[Literature/BookOfJob The Voice in the Whirlwind from the Book of Job]].''

and in the dust she lets them warm.\\]]

->'''Stan:''' All we ever heard growing up was "save the forest. The rainforest is fragile."\\

-->--'''[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=366447 Diciple of the Old Ways]]''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

-->-- '''Kenner''', ''StateOfFear''

-->-- '''RichardDawkins''', ''River Out of Eden''

-->--'''[[Creator/KenWatanabe Daisuke Serizawa]],''' ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''

-->-- '''Creator/WernerHerzog''', ''Burden of Dreams''

->''"[[MemeticMutation Damn nature, you scary!]]"''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

->''"And what haunts me, is that in all the faces of all the [[BearsAreBadNews bears]] that [[FriendToAllLivingThings Treadwell]] ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food."''
-->-- '''Creator/WernerHerzog''', ''Film/GrizzlyMan''

-->'''Alfred Tennyson''', ''In Memoriam A. H. H.''

->''"And what haunts me, is that in all the faces of all the bears that [[FriendToAllLivingThings Treadwell]] ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food."''

With ravine, shriek'd against his creed?

-->-- '''RichardDawkins''', ''River Out of Eden''

-->''You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature, Ted. Civilization '''protects''' us from nature. Because what you see right now, all around you -(referring to '''[[spoiler: a tribe of cannibals]]''')- this '''is''' nature.''
-->-- '''Kenner''', ''StateOfFear''