Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Yes Spring is in the air. The nests have been built, the eggs laid and starting to hatch, the amphibians mating and the birds singing their songs much earlier than usual in the day.
A duck with ducklings in unpolluted waters
And then there is Rattlechain lagoon owned by Rhodia UK Limited- member of the Solvay group.
“Due to the plant life, abundant trees, and water the rattlechain area is a safe haven and home to a variety of birds including swans.”
Steve Hampson former Rhodia Works manager 2001.
Last night Rhodia’s contractors got the chainsaws out. Last night Rhodia’s contractors started to dig at the north embankment again. This morning.. the work continued with Napoleon smoting his ruin on the land once more.
“The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.”
Meanwhile Bonaparte continues wallowing in the phosphatic mud bath to the East.
The book “silent spring” by Rachael Carson changed the way in which people viewed the chemical industry, particularly the pesticides industry and its bullyboy tactics- and one firm in particular which continues to use these tactics on some American farmers. She inspired many to challenge this grotesque industry and challenge their latter day Messiah claims of how pesticides could save the world. And then the PR juggernaut of the chemical industry started to roll, in the same way that forests are destroyed to exploit the natural resources that they hold.
“If man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth.”
biochemist and former chemical industry spokesman Robert White-Stevens stated.
Unfortunately the chemical industry believes that it itself created life rather than as it will eventually be found.. to have destroyed it. For every disease that they cure, for every insect and bee that they kill, with it so the human population will reproduce to doom itself into extinction. Lab coated specimens creating new biocides and chemicals today have a misguided God complex.
“The Garden of Eden” refered to in Hopkins poem had no such spoilage, unpolluted by unnatural chemicals , and certainly no organophosphates manufactured by religious cult nutters or the bile in a bottle known as “round-up”.
For all their certainty of themselves, their “saving the world” that their meddling has directly threatened, their Promethean methods and conclusions, the scientist continues to advance in the “dark ages” to no logical conclusion… except that one day they will themselves be pushing up daisies.