Thought for the Day
A human [is] not a fallen god, but a promoted reptile. J. Howard Moore, The Universal Kinship, 1906
A human [is] not a fallen god, but a promoted reptile. J. Howard Moore, The Universal Kinship, 1906
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities, 1938
Of all the animal advocacy organization headquarters that the Grumpy Vegan has visited over the years in the U.K. and U.S., the one with the most professionally organized and comprehensive archive is the Massachusetts SPCA in Boston. I was therefore … Continue reading
Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out, homo called sapiens. Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950, Wine from These Grapes, 1934
The global environmental crisis will improve our lives by offering us a planet-wide crisis of the soul, an opportunity to mature as a species. We are, as these things go, a fairly adolescent creature, with prowess all out of proportion … Continue reading
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that the earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody’s mom in that she knows what’s best for us. But if you look … Continue reading