Thinking Twice: Environment
English Professor John Felstiner and human ecologist William Durham discuss paths to environmental consciousness.
Can poetry save the Earth?
John Felstiner
Not that she was a disbeliever—instead, Emily Dickinson "keeps Believing nimble." She had her nerve alright, transplanting the Holy Trinity into her garden: "In the name of the Bee - / And of the Butterfly - And of the Breeze - Amen!" BEES! But what would she have coaxed from a recent discovery in Burma of a 100-million-year-old bee embedded in amber with four tiny flowers it was sipping?
Blown away by bees
By William Durham
Charles Darwin, whose bicentenary we celebrate this year, was one of the first to comprehend the evolutionary history of life on Earth and was, to my mind, the first to really appreciate the grandeur of that vision. Darwin's two main conclusions about life, so insightful and far-reaching, continue today to inform and inspire.
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