nature red in tooth and claw

What a book a Devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low & horridly cruel works of nature!

Charles Darwin, Letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856, Darwin Correspondence Project, July 13, 1856

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Nick Bostrom, In defense of posthuman dignity, Bioethics, vol. 19, no. 3, 2005, pp. 202–214, p. 211