I am indebted to Sir Malcolm Thornton for this great quotation from one of the great brains of the last century. I offer it for your weekend enjoyment.
cheers
Bri
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THE BELLS OF HEAVEN
‘Twould ring the bells of Heaven
The wildest peal for years,
If Parson lost his senses
And people came to theirs;
And he and they together
Knelt down with angry prayers
For tamed and shabby tigers,
And dancing dogs and bears,
And wretched blind pit ponies,
And little hunted hares.
Ralph Hodgson
1871-1962e
Ralph Hodgson was one of the earliest writers to be concerned with ecology,
speaking out against the fur trade and man’s destruction of the natural world.