The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole.

For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice.

The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.