--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: From the first day I met his daughter…" description: "\"“From the first day I met his daughter, all I could think about was snuffling up under that sweet dimity like some bad old bear, just crawling up into ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7a/peter-matthiessen-5795_children_from-the-first-day-i-met-his-daughter-al_1101393.png" --- # From the first day I met his daughter, all I could think… ![“From the first day I met his daughter, all I could think about was snuffling up under that sweet dimity like some bad old bear, just crawling up into that honeycomb, nose twitching, and never come out of there till early spring. Think that’s disgusting? Dammit, I do, too, but that’s the way male…” quote by Peter Matthiessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7a/peter-matthiessen-5795_children_from-the-first-day-i-met-his-daughter-al_1101393.png) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7a/peter-matthiessen-5795_children_from-the-first-day-i-met-his-daughter-al_1101393.png) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7a/peter-matthiessen-5795_children_from-the-first-day-i-met-his-daughter-al_1101393.png) > ““From the first day I met his daughter, all I could think about was snuffling up under that sweet dimity like some bad old bear, just crawling up into that honeycomb, nose twitching, and never come out of there till early spring. Think that’s disgusting? Dammit, I do, too, but that’s the way male animals are made. Those peculiar delights were created to entrap us, and anybody who disapproves can take it up with God. In their wondrous capacity of knowing the Lord’s mind, churchly folks will tell you that He would purely hate to hear such dirty talk. My idea is, He wouldn’t mind it half so much as they would have us think, because even according to their own queer creed, we are God’s handiwork, created in His image, lust, piss, shit, and all. Without that magnificent Almighty lust that we mere mortals dare to call a sin, there wouldn’t be any more mortals, and God’s grand design for the human race, if He exists and if He ever had one, would turn to dust, and dust unto dust, forever and amen. Other creatures would step up and take over, realizing that man was too weak and foolish to properly reproduce himself. I nominate hogs to inherit the Earth, because hogs love to eat any old damned thing God sets in front of them, and they’re ever so grateful for God’s green earth even when it’s all rain and mud, and they just plain adore to feed and fuck and frolic and fulfill God’s holy plan. For all we know, it’s hogs which are created in God’s image, who’s to say?”” [Peter Matthiessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-matthiessen/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. The passage sat human sexual desire as a natural, divine‑created force, arguing that denying it conflicts with the idea that humans are made in God's image, and humorously suggests that even pigs could be seen as divine creations. **In simple terms:** Human desire is natural and part of God's design; rejecting it is absurd. Key Takeaway Accept desire as part of humanity. 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Dammit, I do, too, but that’s the way male animals are made. Those peculiar delights were created to entrap us, and anybody who disapproves can take it up with God. In their wondrous capacity of knowing the Lord’s mind, churchly folks will tell you that He would purely hate to hear such dirty talk. My idea is, He wouldn’t mind it half so much as they would have us think, because even according to their own queer creed, we are God’s handiwork, created in His image, lust, piss, shit, and all. Without that magnificent Almighty lust that we mere mortals dare to call a sin, there wouldn’t be any more mortals, and God’s grand design for the human race, if He exists and if He ever had one, would turn to dust, and dust unto dust, forever and amen. Other creatures would step up and take over, realizing that man was too weak and foolish to properly reproduce himself. 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