Today’s Green Thought comes from Rene Dubos’ 1968 essay ‘Environmental Determinants of Human Life’.
Humans can adapt (via culture) to ‘starless skies, treeless avenues, shapeless buildings, tasteless bread, joyless celebrations, spiritless pleasures – and to a life without reference for the past, love for the present or poetical anticipations of the future’ but ‘ it is questionable that man can retain his physical and mental health if he loses contact with the natural forces that have shaped his biological and mental nature’.
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