Posts Tagged With: Environment

might have made a difference

Posted on 26/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

Photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Difference, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 2 Comments

pablum

Posted on 21/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.”

~ Paul Eldridge ~

Photo taken in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Banks, Barbarian, Brown Boots, Choke, Congress, Corporate Copulation, Death, Democracy, Ear, Environment, Goons, Greed, Jim Crow, Militia, Oceans, Orangutan, Pablum, Peasants, Perspective, Photography, Pigmentation, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Protections, Rivers, Toxic Emissions, Undesirables, Waste, White Supremacy | 1 Comment

the street to nowhere

Posted on 10/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

Photo taken in the Rue d’Ecosse in Paris in September 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Compassion, Conflict, Consequences, Death, Denial, Destiny, Environment, Extinction, Footsteps, Greed, Ignorance, Impasse, Intolerance, Life, No Future, Nowhere, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Respect, Responsibility, Self-Destruction, Street, Suffering, Violence, Vision | 1 Comment

brick by brick

Posted on 06/09/2025 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Photo taken in April 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beams, Beauty, Brainlessness, Bricks, Certitude, Charlatans, Clowns, Darkness, Dogma, Dunces, Environment, Half-Timbered, Insight, Intellect, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Logic, Music, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Science, Stupidity, Time, Truth, Wisdom | 1 Comment

la malédiction

Posted on 15/02/2025 by Nightpoet

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~

Photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barbarians, Civilised, Compassion, Creation, Cultured, Cursed, Darkness, Death, Discarded, Environment, Experiment, Future, History, Humans, Kindness, Life, Mayhem, Murder, No Deposit No Return, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Time, Violence | 1 Comment

a sea of humanity

Posted on 28/12/2024 by Nightpoet

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

000 a sea of humanity 2

Photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Berlin, Cesspool, Compassion, Copulation, Death, Environment, Fucking, Future, Greed, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intelligence, Life, Obsession, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Science, Sex, Violence | 1 Comment

pablum

Posted on 11/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.”

~ Paul Eldridge ~

000 pablum 1

Photo taken in May 2015.

might have made a difference

Posted on 04/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

000 might have made a difference 2

Photo taken in November 1991.

the street to nowhere

Posted on 29/09/2024 by Nightpoet

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

000 the street to nowhere 1

Photo taken in the Rue d’Ecosse in Paris in September 2015.

bitter storm

Posted on 21/07/2024 by Nightpoet

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

~ Edward Abbey ~

000 bitter storm 1

Photo taken in November 1985.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Actions, Carpetbaggers, Clouds, Corpses, Death, Environment, Fascism, Fight, Future, Greed, Life, Mind, Mountains, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Putrid, Resistance, Revolution, Robber Barons, Shadow, Vermin, Violence, Words | 1 Comment

an angry young man

Posted on 30/06/2024 by Nightpoet

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that

the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

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Photo taken in Santorini in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Activism, Anger, Angry Young Man, Awareness, Difference, Environment, Greed, Ignorance, Inhumanity, Injustice, Intolerance, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Santorini, Self-Centeredness, Stupidity, Womb | 1 Comment

suicide by humanity

Posted on 18/06/2024 by Nightpoet

“The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 suicide by humanity 1

Photo of street art by ‘Polar Bear’ taken in Paris in June 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Ashes, Climate, Death, Debris, Elephants, Environment, Extermination, Humanity, Ignorance, Nature, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Self Gratification, Street Art, Stupidity, Suicide, Trees | 1 Comment

earth day

Posted on 22/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together… all things connect.”

~ Chief Seattle ~

000 earth day 1

Photo taken somewhere in northern France in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Beauty, Clouds, Death, Earth, Earth Day, Environment, Extermination, Extinction, Fauna, Flora, France, Future, History, Horizon, Humanity, Life, Nature, Past, Photography, Plants, Poetry | 1 Comment

ageless am i

Posted on 20/07/2023 by Nightpoet

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

~ George Carlin ~

000 ageless am i

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Kinderdijk, Netherlands in April 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Cave Painters, Civilization, Colonialism, Cruelty, Dark Ages, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Egypt, Environment, Experiment, First Farmers, Future, Greed, Greeks, History, Ignorance, Industrial Revolution, Innocent, Life, Medieval Society, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Romans, Sumeria, The Enlightenment, Time, War | 1 Comment

reboot required

Posted on 20/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“The two most common elements in the universe

are hydrogen and stupidity.”

~ Harlan Ellison ~

000 reboot required 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of Ischia, Italy in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Change, Consumerism, Digital Imagery, Environment, Logic, Materialism, Perceptions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progeny, Re-education, Reboot, Sea, Stupidity, Swamp | 1 Comment

child

Posted on 28/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

~ Margaret Mead ~

000 child 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris in November 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Catastrophe, Children, Creative Expression, Digital Imagery, Environment, Freedom Of Speech, Future, Hate, Innocence, Intolerance, Legacy, Nightmare, No Future, Oligarchic, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plutocratic, Poetry, Racism, Servitude, Theocratic, Trust, Violence, Wonder | 1 Comment

the myth

Posted on 24/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 the myth 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Destruction, Digital Imagery, Earth, Environment, Extinction, Humans, Myth, Nature, Perspective, Photography, Planet, Poetry, Species | 1 Comment

la malédiction

Posted on 26/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~

000 la malédiction 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barbarians, Civilised, Compassion, Creation, Cultured, Cursed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Discarded, Environment, Experiment, Future, History, Humans, Kindness, Life, Mayhem, Murder, No Deposit No Return, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Time, Violence | 1 Comment

a sea of humanity

Posted on 27/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

000 a sea of humanity 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Berlin, Cesspool, Compassion, Copulation, Death, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intelligence, Life, Obsession, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Science, Sex, Violence | 1 Comment

might have made a difference

Posted on 15/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Environment

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that

the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together… all things connect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The two most common elements in the universe

are hydrogen and stupidity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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