There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or beauty, or to wild things, was issued in legislation.
Robert HassNostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
Robert HassIf you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.
Robert HassI thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.
Robert Hass