John Fowles: The Threat to us in the Coming Millennium

AUGUST WILHELM LEU

We have simply transferred the tree setting to the now more familiar brick-and-concrete forest of town and city.

— John Fowles

The threat to us in the coming millennium lies not in nature seen as rogue shark, but in our growing emotional and intellectual detachment from it—and I do not think the remedy lies solely in the success or failure of the conservation movement. It lies as much in our admitting the debit side of the scientific revolution, and especially the changes it has effected in our modes of perceiving and of experiencing the world as individuals.