Monday 9 January 2012

John Muir - "Wild Wool"

"No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in the way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged."

Today’s Green Thought comes from John Muir’s essay "Wild Wool" written in 1875. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

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