I am a nature lover. America the current king of modern tech and destroyer of nature had also many nature poets and nature lovers, some almost mystical. Such as John Muir, Rachel carson, Audobon. One of them is Walt Whitman, whom I have not read in detail though leaves of grass etc in excerpts.
But I still faintly remember what I read long ago in univ library while I was doing my masters......a book on ecology was quoting whitman thus.....
"If you remember me after years.... look for me under your boots.....".. so lyrical way of describing the cycles of nature and ecological consciousness.....as the hindus say.." vasudevaiya kuttumbakam" the earth is one big family..... whatever you do to the web of life affects you...because you are, irrevocably, a part of the web....
if you remember me years hence,......
look for me under your boots
on the grasses by the riverside!
Does anyone remember more of the above...i tried hard but cant remember the title ot the author?