“Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.” PeopleTwoEnvironmentOne ThingInfluenceEnvironmental Book:The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered Source: The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered
“Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free, one thing you do not think about: the whole. Beasts have a mind; respect it. Flowers too- look at one. Nature brought forth each petal. There is a mystery that sleeps in metal. Everything feels, and has power over you.” ThinkingMenFeelsMindLooksSoulWholeSleepOne ThingMysteryFlowerEnvironmentalBeastOver YouMetalsPetalsQuiver Author:Gerard De Nerval
“The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My hope is that we won't have these environmental poets tucked over here and everybody else doing cool stuff with language and consciousness elsewhere, but that all of it will become one thing.” LanguageStuffConsciousnessEnvironmentOne ThingPoetBecomingConcernEnvironmentalElsewhereBleedingCool Stuff Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming