“Many scientists and ecologists have recently taken the lead in trying to persuade us, by an appeal to the facts, of a lethal threat to the natural world. It remains to be seen whether merely to know the facts is enough, or whether it will take a revival and dissemination of some equivalent to the Romantic vision of nature to enable us, in Shelley’s great phrase, ‘to imagine that which we know.’ It seems likely that only such a motive power—such an emotive power—will suffice to release the energies, the invention, and the will to make the sacrifices that are needed if we are to salvage this no-longer-quite-so-green earth while it is still fit to live on.” —M. H. Abrams, from the essay “This Green Earth: The Vision of Nature in the Romantic Poets” from The Fourth Dimension of a Poem and Other Essays. amzn.to/X5gp0U
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:44:13 +0000
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