John Ruskin - Portrait - Project Gutenberg
Title
John Ruskin - Portrait - Project Gutenberg
Description
An early "Back-to-Nature" movement, which anticipated the romantic ideal of modern environmentalism, was advocated by intellectuals such as John Ruskin, William Morris, and Edward Carpenter, who were all against consumerism, pollution and other activities that were harmful to the natural world. The movement was a reaction to the urban conditions of the industrial towns, where sanitation was awful, pollution levels intolerable and housing terribly cramped. Idealists championed the rural life as a mythical Utopia and advocated a return to it. John Ruskin argued that people should return to a small piece of English ground, beautiful, peaceful, and fruitful. We will have no steam engines upon it . . . we will have plenty of flowers and vegetables . . . we will have some music and poetry; the children will learn to dance to it and sing it.
Creator
None
Date
30 September, 2006
Source
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/John_Ruskin_-_Portrait_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17774.jpg
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Rights
Public Domain under copyright law of the United States
Publisher
Public domain in the United States
Contributor
None
Format
Illustration
Language
English
Type
Figures
Identifier
Environment, Legislation, Consumerism, Pollution, Industrial, John Ruskin
Coverage
United Kingdom
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Collection
Reference
None, John Ruskin - Portrait - Project Gutenberg, Public domain in the United States, 30 September, 2006
Cite As
None, “John Ruskin - Portrait - Project Gutenberg,” Virtual Museum of Public Service, accessed April 26, 2024, https://vmps.omeka.net/items/show/643.