Quote#Nature
Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the…
Quote byD. H. Lawrence · 1885–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929).
English (original)
Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!
— D. H. Lawrence
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