“I earn my living teaching about the human condition, a composite of violence, vengeance, and theft, ingenuity, too, and forms of love unique to men and women, the only species that knows, consciously, what others of its kind thought and did thousands of years before— stories, myths, histories, philosophies, all mirrors and constellations showing humanity to itself, none of which will ensure our survival.” HumansPoetryHumanityHistoryMankindPoemHuman ConditionHumankindDocumentation Book:These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems Source: These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems