Nature Is Still Ours

What happens
 Is that
 The old
 Fascination
 Disappears
 An echo remains
 And you
 The old
 Fascination
 Disappears
 An echo remains
 The old
 Fascination
 Disappears
 An echo remains
 And you have, as it were
 The
 Vestige
 Of mythology
 The problem of our
 Present
 Age
 Is to
 Recreate
 The mythology
 For today
 On which people
 Will live
 On which the society
 Will grow
 It is being done
 It is being done well
 People aren't always looking in the right place for it
 But it is
 Taking shape
 Our
 Great artists
 Our great poets
 Our great scientists
 Erwin Schrodinger's
 Little book
 'My View of the World'
 This is a vision of a poet, and of a first-rate physical scientist
 And it has the same song in it
 That one reads and hears
 In the old
 Upanishads
 And in the sayings of the great prophets
 Nature is still ours
 It's still ours
 It is in us
 It is in the universe
 Nature is still ours
 It's still ours
 It is in us
 It is in the universe
 Secondary to that
 Is the social
 Situation
 Now in our society, the social problem is
 Turned over largely to the police
 And to
 Congress
 As a purely
 Practical matter
 However
 The creatures
 That constitute the society
 These are today
 The neighbor
 They really are
 The idea of a personal God
 Living
 Somehow
 Somewhere else
 Out there - there is no "out there" anymore
 There is no "up there"
 It's awfully difficult
 To
 Validate
 But it seems to me if one's looking for the personality of God
 It's right here
 In the multitudinous personalities of those
 Around us
 Nature is still ours
 It's still ours
 It is in us
 It is in the universe
 Nature is still ours
 It's still ours
 It is in us
 It is in the universe
 Everything I find
 In the poets
 In the scientists
 Who push through
 To this
 Mystery
 Points
 Not to the animals
 As our neighbors
 Not to the plant
 Not to the planet
 But to that
 Other one
 That "thou"
 Whom you face
 Who's not the thou you would want him to be
 He's other
 And it's that recognition of otherness
 That is absolutely basic and necessary
 Now this doesn't mean that you have to
 Give up your otherness
 In recognition of him
 It may darn well be
 Collision
 But it has to be collision
 With reverence
 And respect