Environmental Movement

The environmental movement is perhaps the most significant contemporary global movement to have emerged in recent decades. The relationship between humankind and nature has been the subject of much debate and inquiry over time. The environmental movement had its cultural origins in literary accounts of humanity's relationship with nature, beginning from the Romantic poets such as William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron, whose works were concerned with the reconciliation of man and nature. This aesthetic could also be found in subsequent Transcendentalist American literature, such as Henry David Thoreau's Walden, published in 1854. The Transcendentalists were interested in the spiritual connections that connected humankind and nature with God and could be seen as the forefathers of deep green ecologists. Charles Darwin's ...