“Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!” LooksPlayStarsTreeDespairLaysShiningHopelessAlasMarbleCypressesCypress Trees Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless."” IfsThinkingWorldWellsLooksProblemMightNaturalStepsPlanetsBirdResponseDisappearScalesErasHopelessMeaninglessNatural WorldOh Well Author:Jonathan Franzen