David Campbell | The Sun Magazine

David Campbell

David Campbell is a painter, poet, and neo-pagan who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

— From November 1992
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Looking At Trees

The pressing issue for us Westerners, the famously alienated, is that our relationship to the world is that of master to slave. We think we’ve solved slavery in the human realm by turning iron shackles into low paychecks. But the shackles on nature grow tighter. In Brazil, a chain stretched between two Caterpillar tractors mows down forests.

November 1992
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