After An Age Of Leaves And Feathers

There Are Aspects Of Human Life That Are Not Purely Destructive, And There Is A Need To Pay Attention To The Things Around Us While They Are Still Around Us. And You Know, In A Way, If You Don't Pay That Attention, The Anger Is Just Bitterness.

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.

There Are Poets Who Believe That You Shouldn't Engage At All In Any Cause. And There's Something To Be Said For That. Because You Don't Want To - I Think Most Political Poetry Is Very Bad. And It's Very Bad Because You Know Too Much To Start With. You Have A Sense That You're Right, And You're Trying To Tell Other People What's Right. And I Think That's Always Kind Of Fundamentalism, And I Don't Like It.

We're Losing A Species Every Few Seconds. We Cannot Put Them Back. If We Change Our Mind And Say, 'oops, We Made A Mistake' - It's Too Late. This Is The World We Live With.

I Have Been Younger In October Than In All The Months Of Spring.