A though-provoking show broadcast on Radio 4, speculating on what the romantic poets of the 1800s would think of today's environmentalists. The conclusion seemed to be that Wordsworth, Ruskin and their contemporaries celebrated not only the majesty of nature, but it's relation to the greatness of the human spirit, whereas today man is increasingly portrayed simply as the great destroyer of the vulnerable entity that is our planet.
And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something for more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting sins,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky and the mind of Man
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thoughts
And rolls through all things.
Wordsworth Tintern Abbey
The programme is available on the website until 23rd July.
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