“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, February 3, 2012

Survival of the Beautiful

This looks very nice. Rothenberg is going to send me a copy, which is very kind of him. It's quite clear, as Darwin argues and I slavishly repeat in The Ecological Thought, that nonhumans have a sense of beauty.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Intuitive - it looks like it will be a life-affirming read.