Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialReaders, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
@colstar13.bsky.socialJuniper Shield Bug landed on my Lady friends hand at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire. #junipershieldbug #shieldbug #nature #newstead #abbey #nottingham
@colstar13.bsky.socialNewstead Abbey, Female Satyr Statue, Nottinghamshire. #newstead #Abbey #femalesatyrstatue #satyr #statue #nottingham
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPage, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLove flowers best in openness and freedom.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
@tourscotland.bsky.socialTour #Scotland travel photography Blog of the interior of the #Abbey on #history visit and trip to #Dunfermline, #Fife. During the #Scottish Reformation the abbey church was sacked in March 1560 and repaired in 1570 by Robert Drummond of Carnock tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2009/10/tour...
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIs the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAbolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: form of rape by the State.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSo long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBaseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.