Garden Gnome Liberation Front
Garden gnome liberationists are individuals and groups advocating the "freedom" of garden gnomes, small decorative ceramic bearded characters, often by stealing them and moving them to new locations. The phenomenon and the liberationists have received substantial media coverage and been featured in films, television and local news stories.
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“A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of, every month, in the newspapers, which catch a man’s coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.”
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)