A Lesson in Beauty

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-06-07 11:03:00 UTC
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If there is one instinct
I just can't get with at all,
it's the urge to kill something beautiful
just to hang it on your wall.
-Ani DiFranco, "Unrequited"

Some friends and I are Twittering Ani lyrics today, and I figured I'd let that little project blend into the blog. We'll forgive her the unfortunate "something" and "it" this time.

Beautiful, natural:

Violent. Not beautiful, not natural:

Beautiful, natural:

Violent. Not beautiful, not natural:

Beautiful, natural:

Violent. Not beautiful, not natural. And a lot of other things:

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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