This sonnet by William Wordsworth, published in 1807, laments the weakening connection between humans and nature.
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Western thought and culture have coalesced around a series of constructed ideas—that human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled; that the mind is somehow superior to the body; that all sexuality entails a seduction—that in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our...
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