“Beauty isn’t this casual thing that you might choose to be interested in or not—just as someone might choose to be interested in chocolate or something! It is, if you like, the thing that attaches us to the world in the first place. It is the thing that is telling us: ‘You belong here.’"

Roger Vernon Scruton (1944 CE-2020 CE), Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, was an English philosopher, writer, and social critic who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.