The poetry of the Egyptian Romantic poet ‘Abd al-Raḥmᾱn Shukrῑ (d. 1958) is suffused with reverence for the natural world. In “Mother Earth,” he portrays Mother Earth as “a wretched old woman who strives to provide for its numerous children.” In “The Imprisoned Bird,” he pities an imprisoned bird “singing the song of a heartbroken man.” In “Reality and Imagination,” “Humans are monkeys and donkeys,” and in “Evolution,” humans are unworthy of being human. “They have surpassed birds and animals in sinfulness.” The present paper purports to analyze Shukrῑ’s eco-sensibility. It argues that Shukrῑ’s poetry and criticism are characterized by a tension between the natural world, including children, and the human/artificial world. While nature represents simplicity and innocence, and inspires feelings of the sublime and the beautiful, the human world represents cruelty, malice, and hostility. Shukrῑ renounces the latter in favor of the untainted company of nature.