Elisee reclus quotes of the day

The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat.!

An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master.

5 quotes from Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus: 'Rumford said a long time ago that “one always finds in nature more than.

The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat.

Élisée Reclus quote: It is in no way a digression to mention the horrors of war in connection with massacres of cattle and carnivorous banquets.

Reclus' message is that the “hands” in the image are those of nature acting through humanity, though it is up to the viewer whether to read the image with more.

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“The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat.”
― Élisée Reclus

“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly well-ordered.

Take, for instance, our great cities, the leaders of civilization, especially the most populous, and, in many respects, the first of all — the immense London, which gathers to herself the riches of the world, whose every warehouse is worth a king’s ransom; where are to be found enough, and more than enough, of food and clothing for the needs of the teeming millions that throng her streets in greater numbers than the ants which swarm in the never-ending labyrinth of their subterranean galleries.

And yet…beside these untold splendors, want is consuming the vitals of entire