It’s sad how the politicians and the masses declare what’s important. John Charles Van Dyke:
To speak about sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense — the power to enjoy through the eye, the ear, and the imagination — is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking; but there has never been a time when the world would admit it.
(Quoted from page 60 of The Desert, by John Charles Van Dyke. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1911.)
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