“The revolt against one’s environment is usually ‘shame’ of one’s environment.”

The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

I have defined poetry as a ‘passionate pursuit of the Real.

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.

Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends.

I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.

We must never forget that the natural environment is a collective good, the patrimony of all humanity and the responsibility of everyone.

I’m thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I’m thankful for the environment that he placed me.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.

Nature is vital to our future.

Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity.

Plastic pollution in the ocean is reaching very high levels and only together can we fight to stop this.

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning.