Carolina QuotesIf we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it — which is what mothers do with their children — then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.
Tom Robbins Carolinian
Source
Ch. 56, p. 211
- work
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
- year
- 1976
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- p. 211
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