The Birth of Tragedy — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The satyr like the idyllic shepherd of our more recent time is the offspring of a longing after the Primitive and the Natural but mark with what firmness and fearlessness the Greek embraced the man of the woods and again how coyly and mawkishly the modern man dallied with the flattering picture of a tender flute playing soft natured shepherd Nature on which as yet no knowledge has been at work which maintains unbroken barriers to culture this is what the Greek saw in his satyr which still was not on this account supposed to coincide with the ape

The satyr like the idyllic shepherd of our more recent time is the offspring of a longing after the Primitive and the Natural but mark with what firmness and fearlessness the Greek embraced the man of the woods and again how coyly and mawkishly the modern man dallied with the flattering picture of a tender flute playing soft natured shepherd Nature on which as yet no knowledge has been at work which maintains unbroken barriers to culture this is what the Greek saw in his satyr which still was not on this account supposed to coincide with the ape