“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
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The *Crow with No Mouth* Ikkyu translations by Stephen Berg (1989) are great. Here's one for animal studies --
Poetry's hellish bullshit one god way to suffer men love it
Men stupid as horses, cows
or
I love bamboo how it looks
And because men carve it into flutes.
An OOO-haiku, that last one?
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