"The human race likes to give itself..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.
More by Ray Bradbury
“When you're older you want to learn from other people.”
“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”
“You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!”
More on Humanity
“For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.”
“Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.”
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
More on Environment
“We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.”
“Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.”
“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.”