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 Paula Gunn Allen

"We are the land… that is the fundamental idea embedded in Native American life… the Earth is the mind of the people as we are the mind of the earth. The land is not really the place (separate from ourselves) where we act out the drama of our isolate destinies… It is rather a part of our being, dynamic, significant, real. It is our self… It is not a matter of being 'close to nature'… The Earth is, in a very real sense, the same as our self (or selves)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210420-mental-health-healing-the-trauma-of-climate-change

"Nothing There: The Late Poetry of John Koethe" by Robert Hahn

 "And that is why artists keep trying—to speak to something beyond the confines of the page, to move the stars to pity."

from "Nothing There: The Late Poetry of John Koethe" by Robert Hahn

https://kenyonreview.org/reviews/the-swimmer-by-john-koethe-738439/

 I am thinking about poetry and that can only be a good thing.

“Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.” ― May Sarton

 

This summer we will return to the cabin. 

Hopefully the beavers will have left us a tree or two.

“For any writer who wants to keep a journal, 

be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, 

but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.” 

May Sarton