clipped from: www.orionmagazine.org   
We ought to discover that there is something superior to the Barbaric Heart, a Universal that is not only Nature but human capacity and creativity as well. We ought to discover that we are a part of this One, an animal among animals.

It is not an animal lover; it is simply happy among animals. It is not a nature lover; it is nature.

Not the God that gives laws, but the gods that encourage living things to thrive.

Ours should be a Dionysian world that refuses the cold comfort of both the capitalist manager and the ecologist technician. The Dionysian does not so much refuse these worlds as laugh in dismissal. Its world is indulgent and ecstatic and curiously impersonal.