There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're … - W. S. Merwin

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W. S. Merwin

There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'. . . The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.

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After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

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So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

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It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and have dominion over the birds of the air and the animals and so forth. ' You run it; it's yours; do what you like with it. I don't know how old that text is, but it represents an attitude that probably really got going with the beginning of agriculture. Before that, the hunter-gatherers were gentler people than the agriculture.

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