“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, October 28, 2011

Another New Yorker Quotation

Page 65:

"Lying on a sofa bed in Aras, I tried to imagine the landscape of ecology without nature..."

HT Chris Schaberg



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