God makes trees, he doesn't write books.
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.
Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture.
We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.
Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.
