Poetry on deep ecology

Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. / I do know how to pay attention.

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Instructions for living a life: / Pay attention. / Be astonished. / Tell about it.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?

The world offers itself to your imagination

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The world offers itself to your imagination.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

You do not have to be good...

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves.

Please Call Me by My True Names

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Please call me by my true names, \ so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once, \ so I can see that my joy and pain are one.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

Profile: Gary Snyder

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Gary Snyder (born 1930) is an American poet, Zen Buddhist practitioner, and ecological philosopher whose work integrates Beat poetry, Buddhism, and bioregionalism. His collection Turtle Island received the Pulitzer Prize in 1975.

Snyder developed his ecological perspective through direct experience - working as fire lookout in the North Cascades, studying anthropology at Reed College, and living in backcountry environments. Fictionalized as Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums, he participated in the San Francisco Renaissance and Beat movement through poetry readings organized with Allen Ginsberg.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left the mountains.”

— Robinson Jeffers

Humanity is the mold to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, / The atom to be split.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Humanity is the mold to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, / The atom to be split.”

— Robinson Jeffers

Hurt Hawks cannot be mended: the wild God has turned / His back on them.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Hurt Hawks cannot be mended: the wild God has turned / His back on them.”

— Robinson Jeffers

Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is / Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is / Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.”

— Robinson Jeffers

The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heart-breaking beauty / Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heart-breaking beauty / Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.”

— Robinson Jeffers

The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me / Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me / Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”

— Robinson Jeffers

quote-this-is-the-first-wildest-and-wisest-thing-I-know -mary-oliver

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“This is the first, wildest and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness” - Mary Oliver