The Ecological Thought Response

Favorite Sentence:

"It exists, for instance, as a poem on a page made of paper from trees, which you hold in your hand while sitting in a chair in a certain room of a house that rests on a hill in the suburbs of a polluted city." -page 11 (on ecological art)

I like this sentence because it shows how connected every little thing in an ecosystem is. Even parts that you wouldn't normally think of as related to the ecological thought has an impact in it. I like how Morton says ecological art isn't ecological because of the subject matter but how it is made from materials and physically exists in the ecosystem. The sentence shortly after that also helps illustrate the point of interconnectivity: "The shape of the stanzas and the length of the lines determine the way you appreciate the blank paper around them." Even a poem can be it's own ecosystem, with the text and the paper working together to create something whole. The focus of poems is not normally on the blank space around the words, so I thought this sentence was very eye-opening.