“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


Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Green Winnie the Pooh

Liam, this is total genius. It captures something, along with the obvious treasures it offers to ecological thinking, of the strange outside-of-time quality of Edwardian fiction, in particular the children's stories.

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Unknown said...

http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2012/12/19/mark-dions-sleeping-bear-installation-hibernates-in-the-norwegian-wilderness/

for bewildering version of a "green Pooh" visit Mark Dion's "Den". strangely Mark Dion makes the not-at-homeness less terrifying...