Quotes from Dr Suresh Frederick
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1.
“Ecocriticism speaks for the voiceless earth. This approach is earth‑centered
and all the other approaches are ego‑centered.”
2. “Human
beings always knew that wild forests are uninhabitable and that is why they
looked down upon wild forests. That is why the forests are destroyed to make
way for fields which would yield grains. The animals are also left out.”
3.
“Ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary subject. A knowledge of the life science
is essential to study literature through this criticism.”
4. “Ecocriticism is totally opposed to the anthropocentric view, i.e., human‑centered view, subscribed to by many human beings. It supports the biocentric view. The human‑centered view is beneficial to the humans, but the biocentric view is beneficial to both the humans and the biosphere.”
5. “Symbiosis keeps everything moving in the evolutionary direction. This is vital for the growth of the biosphere. Symbiosis can be equated to integrative Oikos in Oikopoetics.”
6.
“Ecocriticism gives human beings a better understanding of nature.”
7. “Now we
have come to understand that nature is also a co‑inhabitant and not a
subordinate.”
8. “The
modern ecological consciousness has a feeling that the balance between humans and the natural world must be maintained. A perfect ecology is one in which
plants, animals, birds and human beings live in such harmony that none
dominates or destroys the other.”
9.
“Ecocriticism helps human beings to have a broader view of nature. It urges
humans to have a biocentric view despite their apparently incorrigible
anthropocentrism due to their selfish nature.”
10. “From
looking at margins within humans to looking on margins within nature (elemental
and human) was only another adventure in ecocritical leap for writers, critics
and academicians, striving to explore and explain the need for both looking at
literature as ‘a simultaneous order’ even while perceiving nature as a
complementary organic and irreplaceable organizing whole.”
