Like a Forest in Springtime Monday, June 20, 2005

An addendum (or addenver?) to the post below: I admire the way Mr. Country Boy turned his politics into poetry. I suspect if we had ever sat down and talked politics and environmentalism for five minutes, we would have irritated the hell out of each other; but for my money he wrote some of the best nature verse of the latter half of the past century. It's depressing to watch the culture arc downward: from Blake to Thoreau to Denver to...who, these days? I guess the best we've got are the postgrad yotzos from Rage Against the Machine bitching about corporations cutting down forests.

Sorry; that was a little cranky of me. It's been a long day. Come to think of it, I'm not sure that five minutes of gabtime would be so painful after all. John Denver, I think, had more than a little Sam Gamgee in him--so maybe he was more conservative than he seemed. (The good kind, of course: As one iconoclastic paleo put it, "Here in the U.S., conservatives tend to assume that the essence of conservatism is to bulldoze a forest and build a Costco.")

At any rate, pax.

@ 7:41:00 PM,

3 Comments:

At 11:45 PM, Blogger Rob L. said...

Remember, trees cause pollution.

 
At 1:27 PM, Blogger Aaron said...

John Denver was a conservative Republican by the end (if I remember correctly), so I'm not sure you would have been at each others' throats.

 
At 1:44 PM, Blogger Tim said...

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