Shannan’s Reviews > Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape > Status Update

And it is time to accept the fact that they have changed forever, cannot be returned to a previous “unspoiled” state—indeed, that the notion of their being spoiled in the first place may be incorrect—and appreciate them, for what they are now. , “the new ecological world order.”quoting Goethe: “[Nature] is ever shaping new forms: what is, has never yet been; what has been, comes not again.”