Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I picked up two books I'd ordered of Robinson Jeffers' poetry.  Paul Kingsnorth quotes him frequently in his writing, and I'd not read him for ages, and couldn't remember much.  This is the beauty of old age:  you can reread books and it's as if it is your first reading!  I know a lot of his poems are political, and it will be interesting to see how they hold up.  This is a time right now when people are reading H G Wells and George Orwell and others, so he may seem prescient.  Jeffers believed that people were a part of nature, not separate from it, and I certainly agree with that.  We should hold no dominion over the earth, especially given our destructive history.  We are animals, and dependent on the earth around us for survival.  There is no fantasy planet to retreat to when we have destroyed the ecology here.  I want to look at what is so, and not what some people wish to be so.  I want to be awake to the earth.