How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Fight Club.
Quote #7
NARRATOR: I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. […] I felt like destroying something beautiful.
Even though Tyler is all about a return to the environment, our narrator wants to destroy it. What's that about? Well, part of the primal human instinct that they seem to be fostering here is one of destruction, whereas conservation is more of a sophisticated human construct. The primitive thing to do is to destroy, not to create.
Quote #8
TYLER: In the world I see, you're stalking elk through the damp canyon forest around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that'll last you for the rest of your life. You'll climb the rich, thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison in the empty carpool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
This is Tyler's ultimate post-apocalyptic vision, one that brings society full circle and back where we started.