Monday, October 24, 2011

Quote of the day

The danger that faces us today is that the whole of reality will be replaced by words. This accounts for that terrible lack of instinct in modern man., particularly the city-dweller. He lacks all contact with life and the breadth of nature. He knows a rabbit or a cow only from the illustrated paper, the dictionary, or the movie, and thinks he knows what it is really like--and is then amazed that cowsheds "smell," because the dictionary did not say so. CW 10 - par 882