# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

> Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, I remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the Grand Canyon for the flying-saucer people to find, was this:WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT
>
> BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAPOnly he didn't say 'doggone.'"

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Hocus Pocus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/hocus-pocus.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/hocus-pocus/bergerons-epitaph-for

## More from this book

> How embarrassing to be human.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/hocus-pocus/how-embarrassing-to-be-human.md)

> Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/hocus-pocus/just-because-some.md)

> "I wish I had been born a bird instead," he said.
>
> "I wish we had all been born birds instead."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/hocus-pocus/i-wish-i-had.md)