“We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.” ImportantNaturalBearsHappeningsClimateClimate ChangeEnormousWitnessAdaptation Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.” GivingImportantLostVoiceAnimalSharePlanetsIncluding Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.” ArtI CanImportantSeemsResultsHappenedPlanets Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.” ImportantCoursesLanguageFocusPropertyMusicalSentencesProseEssaysCadenceCompression Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some ways it's important to be the vessels for grief for all that's being lost on our planet. But we also need to be forward thinking.” ThinkingWayNeedsImportantLostLossGriefPlanetsEnvironmentalVesselOur PlanetLamentForward Thinking Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
