This is one of my favourite quotes. I think often of the world after humanity, of the city dissolving back into the natural world. Every time I see green shoots creeping out between two slabs of concrete I smile.
Bakunin says the urge to destroy is a creative urge. In fact, creation and destruction are inseparably intertwined. Every new creation is also a destruction of the old. Does the bud not kill the seed? Hegel may claim that it sublates it, negates and preserves it...this also is a kind of death. The end of life does not mean the end of existence, just the cessation of action.
This is in Kirkby Lonsdale, frontline of nature's rebellion...
Perhaps this desire is my own kind of afterlife speculation. To see beyond the veil, to remain and experience the post-apocalyptic world, as nature regains it balance and begins again to instill its order, slowly annihilating every we have achieved...five thousand years of culture covered with grass and sand. Our dead concrete monuments obscured by the flesh of trees and the blossom of flowers.
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tai_:
Definitely agreed sir! I love those songs! 
scarringthewound:
On of my best art ideas came after a bout of destruction. I was so angry I picked up my hammer and started smashing at the piece of wall that marked my studio space. I loved how I could see the history of the wall through the layers of white paint, plaster and brick... seeing weeds shoot out inbetween slabs of concrete always fills me with joy, I was having a stroll the other day around the Bank area of London and weeds were some of the best moments on my walk.