Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.
Aldous HuxleyModern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
Aldous HuxleyThe quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous HuxleyThere was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
Aldous Huxley