Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 318 | "Is there only View more quotes about misery">misery, prisons, guns, and hatred?" "Nature does not exist," she said. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 315 | A plant was organic, and the health of the plant assured the health of its components. |
| 9 | 316 | A culture, on the other hand, though it might crumble and lapse into obsolescence, was commonly not organic, but mechanistic, and the functioning of the machine required not the happiness, health, or welfare of its parts, but only that they functioned appropriately, contributing to the pointless longevity of the machine itself. |
| 9 | 317 | "Is there no such thing as nature?" I asked. |
| 9 | 318 | "Is there only misery, prisons, guns, and hatred?" "Nature does not exist," she said. |
| 9 | 319 | "You cannot be serious," I said. |
| 9 | 320 | "It does not exist in any important sense," she said. |
| 9 | 321 | "If not," I said, "why must it be so fiercely contested, so strenuously fought against?" "It is inimical to civilization," she said. |
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A plant was organic, and the health of the plant assured the health of its components.
A culture, on the other hand, though it might crumble and lapse into obsolescence, was commonly not organic, but mechanistic, and the functioning of the machine required not the happiness, health, or welfare of its parts, but only that they functioned appropriately, contributing to the pointless longevity of the machine itself.
"Is there no such thing as nature?" I asked.
"Is there only misery, prisons, guns, and hatred?" "Nature does not exist," she said.
"You cannot be serious," I said.
"It does not exist in any important sense," she said.
"If not," I said, "why must it be so fiercely contested, so strenuously fought against?" "It is inimical to civilization," she said.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)