The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place is the same place. Kudzu. Zebra Mussels. Water Hyacinths. Starlings. Burger Kings. The local natives,…

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Earth Quotes, Environment Quotes

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be...

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be...

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is...

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is...

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring...

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring...

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

The answer is there is no answer.

The answer is there is no answer.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less...

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less...

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music...

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music...

The cat looks back at me the way dogs and some cars look when people...

The cat looks back at me the way dogs and some cars look when people...

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority...

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority...

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool...

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool...

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall...

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall...

Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon...

Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon...

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster,...

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster,...

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground...

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground...

I'd rather be dead than think about death.

I'd rather be dead than think about death.

Anger may identify a problem, but it will never solve one.

Anger may identify a problem, but it will never solve one.