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“ ”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.
About John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (October 8 1872 – June 17 1963) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, anarchist, and autobiographer.
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One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.
Additional quotes by John Cowper Powys
"A limit there must be," thought Sam, "to the sympathy one soul can give to other souls — or all would perish."
He thought to himself how, in some future time, when these formidable scientific inventions would have changed the face of the earth, some wayward philosopher like himself would still perhaps watch through a window a human head <i>reading by candlelight<i></i>, and find such a sight touching beyond words.</i>
O I do so agree with you in <i>Faith</i> being the thing! But Henry (my dear) <i>I can't I can't I can't</i> and <i>I won't</i> (even if it <i>is</i> the old devil himself in me!) I <i>can't agree</i> with you about '<i>Love</i>'. No no no no no no no no no no <i>I am sick of love</i>. It has been tried and it has failed. <i>Jesus & Love</i> have had their day.