An Eco-spiritual Approach to Gerard Manley Hopkins

Abstract

In olden days, people were seen more and more dependent and sensitive on/to nature. They bore
different attitudes towards nature. Unless the attitude of people changes towards nature, no positive
change in environmental health can be expected in spite of several government and non-government
initiatives spreading awareness about the idea of co-existence. Boundless potential of religion if it
is put in use for spiritual awakening towards nature, hopefully our attempts would bring in
tremendous success. Religion has always played very crucial in human lives across the world, and
therefore it may be a milestone in transforming attitudes of people towards ecology. Eco-spiritual
literary approach links ecology to spirituality so as to make nature and human bonding more solid,
effective and friendly. It looks for the intersectional relationship of science, religion, and literature
while examining nature as sketched up in various literary texts. In this paper, the present author
attempts to analyse and evaluate a few most appealing and essential pieces showing up his spiritual
stand on/towards nature.