Posts Tagged With: Humanity

cornu copiae

Posted on 15/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“All animals are equal,

but some animals are more equal than others.”

~ George Orwell ~

Photo of a fragment of painted Roman wall plaster depicting what is possibly an empty cornucopia taken in January 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cancer, Cornucopia, Disease, Greed, Humanity, Hunger, Ideology, Ignorance, Inequality, Life, Lords, Masters, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Privilege, Religion, Slaughter | 1 Comment

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

circle game

Posted on 07/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”

~ James Lendall Basford ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Circles, Cockroaches, Copulation, Cycles, Death, Earth, Extinction, Future, Game, History, Humanity, Life, Mantra, Overextending, Overflowing, Overindulgence, Overwhelming, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resources, Rhythm, Street Art, Survival, Time | 1 Comment

some have learned to cheat

Posted on 29/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world –

not even our troubles.”

~ Charlie Chaplin ~

Photo taken in Paestum, Italy in 1996

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brick, Cheat, Creativity, Dark, Death, Evanesce, Forgetfulness, Humanity, Life, Light, Memories, Molecules, Monuments, Mortar, Music, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Words | 1 Comment

upon the seventh day

Posted on 09/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“sex sleep eat drink dream…”

~ Adrian Belew ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anticipation, Blueprint, Creation, Devil, Fantasy, God, Humanity, Imbibe, Ingest, Intimacy, Masterpiece, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Rest, Seventh Day, Smile | 1 Comment

heart

Posted on 06/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“The human heart is a strange vessel.

Love and hatred can exist side by side.”

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Compassion, Emotions, Empathy, Hate, Heart, Humanity, Life, Love, Monsters, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Self, Selfishness, Souls, Street Art | 1 Comment

hope is a fuse

Posted on 29/05/2025 by Nightpoet

“Life is creation – self and circumstances, the raw material.”

~ Dorothy Richardson ~

Photo taken in May 2025.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Appreciate, Creativity, Dormice, Genes, Happy, Hope, Humanity, Interests, Life, Meaning, Perspective, Photography, Picasso, Pigeons, Poems, Poetry, Portraits, Prose, Talents, Unique | 1 Comment

another day on earth

Posted on 17/04/2025 by Nightpoet

“Humankind’s presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer.”

~ John Gray ~

Photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cancer, Copulating, Day, Death, Earth, Eating, Ferris Wheel, Future, Humanity, Imagination, Late, Life, Percolating, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ride, Scheming, Screaming, Time, Tracks, Train | 1 Comment

the fragment of a tear

Posted on 09/02/2025 by Nightpoet

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathy, Art, Cockroaches, Death, Dragonflies, Experiment, Extermination, Extinction, Future, Harmony, History, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Memories, Music, Nature, Paris, Past, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Science, Stupidity, Tear, Time, Weep | 1 Comment

who wouldn’t

Posted on 24/01/2025 by Nightpoet

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized

for a crime you haven’t committed.”

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~

Photo taken in January 2025.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cancer, Clouds, Death, Distant, Doubts, Horizon, Humanity, Life, Old Age, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Safe, Thinking, Time | 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

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.

sing

Posted on 05/10/2024 by Nightpoet

“Singing, it’s like, it’s like loving somebody,

it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

~ Janis Joplin ~

000 sing 2

Photo taken in June 2014. Courtesy of DePiero and Associates.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ears, Emotion, Feeling, Heart, Humanity, Language, Love, Magic, Melody, Mouth, Music, Mystery, Notes, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Senses, Singing, Song, Sound, Spirit | 1 Comment

balance

Posted on 05/08/2024 by Nightpoet

“We may outrun by violent swiftness and lose by over-running.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 balance 1

Photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Balance, Change, Consequences, Cycles, Death, Ego, Evolution, Extinction, Future, Greed, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Profit, Reality, Species, Street Art, Stupidity | 1 Comment

the great extinction

Posted on 02/07/2024 by Nightpoet

“Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction

of species called the Anthropocene – the Age of Man.”

~ Louie Psihoyos ~

000 the great extinction 1

Photo of taken in April 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bones, Civilization, Death, Desert, Dust, Extermination, Extinction, History, Humanity, Legacy, Life, Meteor, Past, Photography, Poetry, Procreation, Resources, Science, Stupidity, Wasteland | 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

these waters flow

Posted on 04/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“He saw that this water flowed and flowed,

it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there;

it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment!”

~ Hermann Hesse ~

000 these waters flow

Photo taken in May 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absorb, Dream, Flow, Heart, Humanity, Leaves, Life, Listen, Memory, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Sea, Soul, Surreptitiously, Time, Trees, Waters, Whisper, Wind, Wisdom, Wisely, Wordlessly | 1 Comment

after the long sleep

Posted on 13/03/2024 by Nightpoet

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean

by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

~ Voltaire ~

000 after the long sleep

Photo taken in March 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awaken, Backwards, Conspiracies, Everything, Eyes, Humanity, Hunger, Lies, Life, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Sleep, Stupidity, Violence, War | 1 Comment

love your world

Posted on 10/03/2024 by Nightpoet

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

000 love your world 2

Photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War | 3 Comments

Posts Tagged With: Humanity

“All animals are equal,

but some animals are more equal than others.”

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:

“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world –

not even our troubles.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“sex sleep eat drink dream…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The human heart is a strange vessel.

Love and hatred can exist side by side.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Life is creation – self and circumstances, the raw material.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Humankind’s presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized

for a crime you haven’t committed.”

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:

“Singing, it’s like, it’s like loving somebody,

it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We may outrun by violent swiftness and lose by over-running.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction

of species called the Anthropocene – the Age of Man.”

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:

“He saw that this water flowed and flowed,

it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there;

it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean

by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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