I truly appreciate what you've brought to the table here. It fills me with sorrow - but also hope: that the anthropocentric view that humanity and nature are at odds...carries all the way across into the way that our government tries 'to protect' land.
It brings to my mind Milan Kundera's 'Unbearable Lightness of Being' - In the section I'm reading, a man is bewildered when both his wife and mistress leave him. The reason they leave him is precisely that he thinks he is protecting them and in so doing, coddles, smothers, embarrasses and infuriates them by standing in the way of an honest and mutual exchange.
Nature (and women) require mutual respect if there is to be a healthy relationship...especially for those aspects that frighten or cause uncertainty. Those aspects reveal their wildness and their soul.
I truly appreciate what you've brought to the table here. It fills me with sorrow - but also hope: that the anthropocentric view that humanity and nature are at odds...carries all the way across into the way that our government tries 'to protect' land.
It brings to my mind Milan Kundera's 'Unbearable Lightness of Being' - In the section I'm reading, a man is bewildered when both his wife and mistress leave him. The reason they leave him is precisely that he thinks he is protecting them and in so doing, coddles, smothers, embarrasses and infuriates them by standing in the way of an honest and mutual exchange.
Nature (and women) require mutual respect if there is to be a healthy relationship...especially for those aspects that frighten or cause uncertainty. Those aspects reveal their wildness and their soul.
This is brilliant writing. Should be widely shared.
Another home run! Thanks