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“The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.”

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Basil Bunting was an English poet known for his concise and precise style. His works often revolve around natural landscapes and philosophical contemplations, earning him praise from readers and critics alike. more

“All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.”

Looks Kind Matter Common Pieces What Matters Sculpture Jugs

Book:Basil Bunting on Poetry

Source: Basil Bunting on Poetry

“Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.”

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Book:Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe

Source: Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe

“Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.”

Stills Serious Claims Flesh Vegetarian Vegan Moralist

Author:Stephen R. L. Clark

“Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.”

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Book:A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth

Source: A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth

“McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.”

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Author:Holmes Rolston III

“Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthy—and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.”

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Author:Holmes Rolston III

“Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.”

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Author:Beth Ditto

“The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.”

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Author:Holmes Rolston III

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