Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
6 INTRODUCTION ground between what we call civilization and wilderness. For Henry David Thoreau, “in Wildness is the preservatio ...
CARE IN SUCH A WORLD 7 Old or recent popular and little-known poems will bring such recognitions. “Something I cannot see puts u ...
8 INTRODUCTION livable or steadily degraded planet. Occasionally emergencies spark awareness: wildfire, hurricane, earthquake, f ...
CARE IN SUCH A WORLD 9 diseases the Europeans carried unknowingly. They thanked God “that he might make room for us,” and from t ...
10 INTRODUCTION Longfellow had grand literary genius. In this high romance, it displaced reality. TheNew York Times thanked it f ...
CARE IN SUCH A WORLD 11 extirpated.” Strikingly in 1864, amid civil war, Marsh knew enough to blame heedlessness and avarice for ...
12 INTRODUCTION soil and aquifers to agribusiness, coral reefs to poison and dynamite fishing, whales and dolphins to military s ...
CARE IN SUCH A WORLD 13 emitting power plant that serves New Mexico Navajo would desecrate and pollute Mother Earth and Father S ...
14 INTRODUCTION deeper must draw us there. It can be found in poetry’s musical lift, attentive imagery, and shaping force, which ...
CARE IN SUCH A WORLD 15 well. Williams felt his poems “transfused with the same forces which transfuse the earth.” Poetry, the n ...
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19 “stony rocks for the conies” Singing Ecology unto the Lord nd God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very ...
20 PA RT O N E the command to replenish the earth and “subdue it.” That command fed the zeal, so mixed in its effects, of Americ ...
SINGING ECOLOGY UNTO THE LORD 21 fought “the Brave New World of a completely man-controlled environment,” urging that “wildernes ...
22 PA RT O N E A deep current runs from our mythic beginnings, from a world spoken into being—“And God said, Let there be light: ...
SINGING ECOLOGY UNTO THE LORD 23 tiny mollusks in spiral shells might be crawling the face of the earth, thinking themselves “wh ...
24 PA RT O N E Praise and twanging, spirit and music, fuse in the Psalms’ charge, their thrust. This force finds its way into mo ...
SINGING ECOLOGY UNTO THE LORD 25 Their sound is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. The “fi ...
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