"Those who don't build must burn...." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
Those who don't build must burn.
More by Ray Bradbury
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?”
“You fail only if you stop writing.”
More on Creation
“If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.”
“In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.”
“- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!”
More on Destruction
“Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs”
“Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.”
“I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.”