George Monbiot Quotes

[John Clare's] Father Was A Casual Farm Labourer, His Family Never More Than A Few Days' Wages From The Poorhouse. Clare Himself, From Early Childhood, Scraped A Living In The Fields. He Was Schooled Capriciously, And Only Until The Age Of 12, But From His First Bare Contact Fell Wildly In Love With The Written Word. His Early Poems Are Remarkable Not Only For The Way In Which Everything He Sees Flares Into Life, But Also For His Ability To Pour His Mingled Thoughts And Observations On To The Page As They Occur, Allowing You, As Perhaps No Other Poet Has Done, To Watch The World From Inside His Head. Read The Nightingale's Nest, One Of The Finest Poems In The English Language, And You Will See What I Mean.
("John Clare, Poet Of The Environmental Crisis 200 Years Ago" In The Guardian.)

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