We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.
Interpretation
Humanity often destroys what is beautiful and valuable.
Ray Bradbury's quote reflects a somber truth about human nature and our tendency to damage or spoil the beauty and grandeur of the world we inhabit. It suggests an inherent flaw in our approach to life and the environment, where our actions can lead to the destruction of the very wonders that inspire and bring joy to existence.
In practice
During a speech about environmental conservation, this quote can highlight the consequences of human actions.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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