Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what...
(n.) The act of exploiting or utilizing.
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and t...
Alfred . . . stands, high and haughty, on that good old respectable ground, the right of the strongest; and he says, and I think quite sensibly, that the American planter is 'only doing, in another fo...