# Quote — Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

> If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it — which is what mothers do with their children — then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

- Author: [Tom Robbins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins.md)
- Book: [Even Cowgirls Get the Blues](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues.md)
- Page: 211
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Robbins#Even_Cowgirls_Get_the_Blues_(1976)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/if-were-ever

## More from this book

> Of course I've contradicted myself. I always do. Only cretins and logicians don't contradict themselves. And in their consistency, they contradict life.

p. 268 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/of-course-ive.md)

> Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things that afford us the greatest privacy.

p. 255 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/sometimes-those-things.md)

> I set an example. That's all anyone can do. I'm sorry the cowgirls didn't pay better attention, but I couldn't force them to notice me. I've lived most of my entire adult life outside the law, and never have I compromised with authority. But neither have I gone out and picked fights with authority. That's stupid. They're waiting for that; they invite it; it helps keep them powerful. Authority is to be ridiculed, outwitted and avoided. And it's fairly easy to do all three. If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid — but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.

p. 416 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/i-set-an-example.md)