After all, Leonardo da Vinci saw no incompatibility between these disciplines. The modern artist tries to bring these together in the service of the Earth. Artists can bring vital issues to public attention. Art can serve as a model of how human activity can be integrated into the natural environment. Though ecological concerns are marginalized by the mainstream power structure, artists are helping to bring the issue of environmental reclamation to the public.
Environmental art can help to create a good society.
Now, with the environmental crisis at hand, artists are using their skills to force their audiences, and themselves, to face these difficult issues. Environmentalists in all fields could learn from the strategies of our colleagues in the arts. After all, aesthetics are important to our lives too. In the discouragement and despair that many concerned people experience, artists can help to lift our spirits and inspire us to find creative ways to take action to restore the Earth. Greta de Groat, Electronic Green Journal, WLN Bibliographic Information Services.