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The State of the Birds, USA, 2009 (1 Viewer)

La Belle Dame sans Merci

In his statement regarding the release of "The State of Birds" report, United States Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recalled Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964), a pioneer of the international environmental movement, and her seminal 1962 book "Silent Spring," which helped to launch the environmental movement.The book's title was inspired by a line from John Keats' 1884 poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (French for "The Beautiful Lady Without Pity"), which reads, "The sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing."

As President Obama and the country's legislators ponder the report's various findings, they would do well to take Mr. Salazar's cue and remember the "silent spring" imagined by Rachel Carson, who once said, "Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world."

Perhaps they might also take a deeper look at "La Belle Dame sans Merci." The poem opens with a haggard knight wandering a bleak landscape "alone and palely loitering."

http://www.13point7billion.org/2009/03/beautiful-lady-without-pity.html
 
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