“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature.”

— John Cowper Powys, book A Glastonbury Romance

Source: The Meaning of Culture (1929), p. 178
Source: A Glastonbury Romance
Context: It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

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British writer, lecturer and philosopher 1872–1963

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