Robert (‘Rabbie’) Burns (1759-1796) was the son of a tenant farmer and started working life at 15 as a farm labourer. He later worked as an excise man (for an overview of his life, see: https://www.historic- uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Robert-Rabbie-Burns/ ). His ‘lowly’ start in life notwithstanding, he was to find lasting fame worldwide as a poet and lyricist, primarily noted for being Scotland’s ‘national bard’ (eg https://www.scotland.org/events/burns-night/the-poetry-of- robert-burns ). We ought to celebrate him, however, not just as a poet but also a political thinker, a significant source of that worldview that, today, is usually called ‘ecocentrism’.
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