The two attitudes of Peace and Love, which many Druids hold as fundamental to their conduct in life, are the same two ideals that were championed by the alternative culture of the 1960s – whose proponents are now the middle-aged generation of ‘baby boomers’. This is no coincidence. The ideals of the sixties were informed by Romanticism, and Romanticism drew upon the two sources of inspiration of the Druids: the world of Nature and the world of Story.
