I am reminded of a quote from the writer and naturalist Gerald Durrell. "We have been placed in charge of a beautiful garden, and we are destroying it with the complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors".
From The Prelude,the long poem William Wordsworth wrote about his childhood find the passage where he describes himself a ten year old boy going nutting. In a grove of Hazel bushes in the woodland,the boy fills the basket with ripe hazelnuts then,boys will be boys,embarks on an orgy of destruction,his vigour freshly fueled by the success of the trampled branches everywhere from his wild assaults. The world was big enough and the population low enough (even then) to get away with that sort of thing. And him an icon of environmentalism too!
"...mankind's bent towards destructiveness is a severe malady..." I can't help but think about the "wreckovation" of the Second Vatican Council, a deliberate act to destroy the Old Faith.
I am reminded of a quote from the writer and naturalist Gerald Durrell. "We have been placed in charge of a beautiful garden, and we are destroying it with the complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors".
That is a brilliant quote! I am going to use that in the future. Thanks Rachael for sharing it.
Wonderful.
Well said! Thank you.
From The Prelude,the long poem William Wordsworth wrote about his childhood find the passage where he describes himself a ten year old boy going nutting. In a grove of Hazel bushes in the woodland,the boy fills the basket with ripe hazelnuts then,boys will be boys,embarks on an orgy of destruction,his vigour freshly fueled by the success of the trampled branches everywhere from his wild assaults. The world was big enough and the population low enough (even then) to get away with that sort of thing. And him an icon of environmentalism too!
"...mankind's bent towards destructiveness is a severe malady..." I can't help but think about the "wreckovation" of the Second Vatican Council, a deliberate act to destroy the Old Faith.