“We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.” IfsWorldMindMadeMistakeLateLosingSpeciesToo LateSecondsMade A Mistake Author:W. S. Merwin
“The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in...” PeopleWorldWayLooksLongImportantIdeasCasesRichGoes OnImportant ThingsGlobal WarmingGet RichVery Deep Author:W. S. Merwin
“If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.” IfsWorldWayStillsIdeasWarWholeSufferingHateNaturalBearsHappeningsTreatsNatural World Author:W. S. Merwin
“On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree” WorldWantLastsTreePlantContemplationLast DayPlant A Tree Author:W. S. Merwin
“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.” WorldWayFirstsArtFirst TimePoetry Is Author:W. S. Merwin
“In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.” PeopleWorldHas BeensFormCultureCoursesLeftWaterGrowingInvolvedCreaturesRainGardenRiversPlantGuidesRecognitionRegionsTestamentLiving ThingsGardenerSmall Creatures Author:W. S. Merwin
“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.” ThinkingWorldWantTryingKindSaidStillsBuiltDesperateOne LoveSave The World Author:W. S. Merwin
