Aldous Huxley Quote

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.

The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world (ed. 1950)