"The human form is sacred for us because it bears the stamp of our embodiment. The wilful desecration of the human form, has become, for many people, a kind of compulsion. And this desecration is also a denial of love. It is an attempt to remake the world as though love were no longer a part of it. And that, surely, is what is the most important characteristic of the postmodern culture: it is a loveless culture, which is afraid of beauty because it is disturbed by love.”
~Roger Scruton
IMPERIVM
~Roger Scruton
IMPERIVM
"A great man is always willing to be little. Whilst he sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep. When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
IMPERIVM
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
IMPERIVM
Forwarded from ELYSIVM
"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
John Muir
John Muir