Andrew McLaughlin - ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’

Once industrialism is viewed from a nonanthropocentric perspective, then it is obviously a horrendous crime against the rest of nature.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Andrew McLaughlin’s 1993 book ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’.

 

http://blogs.stuzog.com/dandeliontimes/recommended-reading/

 

John Muir - A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death...Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony.

 

This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from the writings of John Muir (1838 – 1914) a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

 

Todays’ is taken from  Muir’s ‘A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf’, p:41-42

George Perkins Marsh - Man and Nature

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned into discords.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Man and Nature (1864) by George Perkins Marsh  (1801 – 1882), an American diplomat and philologist considered by some to be America's first environmentalist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Perkins_Marsh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_and_Nature

W B Yeats

Wherever men have tried to imagine a perfect life, they have imagined a place where men plough and sow and reap not a place where there are great wheels turning and great chimneys vomiting smoke.

Today’s Green Thought comes from a W B Yeats lecture in 1911 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_B_Yeats