tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832357530514128918.post2626174364269958381..comments2012-06-16T17:11:03.022-07:00Comments on healthearth ... healthearthealthearthealthearth: Solastalgia, Soliphilia, Eutierria and Art.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01872501687960046925noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-832357530514128918.post-1484072434660085622010-06-07T13:31:00.066-07:002010-06-07T13:31:00.066-07:00Unfortunately, descriptions of hell -- melancholy ...Unfortunately, descriptions of hell -- melancholy ramblings of solastalgia -- possesss much more of the language than expressions of soliphilia. Compare books 1 and 3 of Dante's Commedia. Still, there are poets of the earth -- Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Walt Whitman, William Stafford and Mary Oliver all come to mind -- who go beyond praising nature and experience a physical unity with their surroundings. <br /><br />Still, I think it's very difficult to find words for the eradication of a species or an ecosystem. <br /><br />William Beebe: "The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”Davidhttp://ovalscreams.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com