Reply #29: I completely freaked out an environmentalist with that statement of Blake's!

[CTyankee]

I think what she was saying is that there is a "meaning" beyond that which is our human understanding...one that surpasses human understanding, and that is "nature's meaning." In other words, she was exalting "nature's meaning" above the human being's meaning since ours is necessarily limited and nature's is eternal. I get that. It is a rebuttal of "man is the measure of all things." Clearly, we have another view of that statement in our present consciousness, or at least I think we do!