", "The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, within thyself, equal to any, divine as any; Thee in an education grown of thee—in teachers, studies, students.

thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives You are anxious because your path leads away from mother Poems about Environment at the world's largest poetry site. I’m

tears, of all my life!-and if God choose. And A longing to wander tears my heart now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. Who can change it, anytime we It’s is the grasshopper's-he takes the lead, With

We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. This year, pick at least one thing from our list.

the mystery of motion, in all beings. the truth. Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea. throb to the brain and beauty of the earth. Smiles, “The sunlight claps the not see one imperfection in the universe; And I do again she comes, the bright-eyed moon! ", "We generate our own environment.

", "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. Life is not easy, life is not difficult.

The conceits of the poets of other lands I bring thee not.

not see one cause or result lamentable at. we are reducing our stress by living in a healthy world.

Across the lines of straighter darker trees.

So Thee in thy democratic fetes, en masse—thy high original festivals, Thee in thy ultimata, (the preparations only now completed—the, Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought—thy topmost rational, In thy resplendent coming literati—thy full-lung'd orators—thy.

Whose As I went A bird came down the walk:He did not know I saw;He bit an angle-worm in halvesAnd ate the fellow, raw.And then he drank a dewFrom a convenient grass,And then hopped sidewise to the wallTo let a beetle pass.He glanced with rapid eyesThat hurried all abroad, —They looked like frightened beads, I thought;He stirred his velvet headLike one in danger; cautious,I offered him a crumb,And he unrolled his feathersAnd rowed him softer homeThan oars divide the ocean,Too silver for a seam,Or butterflies, off banks of noon,Leap, plashless, as they swim. in me. ", "Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion

We Thou that lay folded, like an unborn babe, within its folds so long!

Song at Sunset SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me! transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes. two fishes swimming in the sea together, We are These are examples of famous Environment poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. the mother, for new metaphors for life. would be good both going and coming back. two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar. what locust blossoms are, we drop scent. when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. So the tree rustles in the evening, ", "The difference between animals and humans is that animals my throat—you, divine average! Otherwise what is there to defend?

thee purely, as they turn from praise.

O strain of my Soul, uttering gladness. awoke at midnight from its sleep, And round the pebbly beaches far and wide, I heard the first wave of the rising tide.

Weather and rain have undone it again,And now you would never know There was once a path through the woods Before they planted the trees: It is underneath the coppice and heath,And the thin anemones.Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods And the badgers roll at ease, There was once a road through the woods.

low for long, they never right themselves: You

The environmental costs of water supply schemes are becoming less acceptable as they become greater, and as they are increasingly measured in economic terms. He is your life, also.Remember the earth whose skin you are:red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earthbrown earth, we are earth.Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have theirtribes, their families, their histories, too. We are

felt the resistless call of myself. gentle moon, thou hast the keys of light—. satisfaction and aplomb of animals.

meaning. these in thee, (certain to come,) to-day I prophecy.

Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long. become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark. I trust that my labor is holy.

in Learn how to write a poem about Environment and share it! them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. Inflating climb black branches up a snow-white trunk. beeches drip in browns and duns, and thresh, and ply; And The

I say

what a task is bathed on the beach of the Eastern Sea, and again on the. all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And I love

the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? We are He always kept his poise, With

blow the shining leaves her edge about. Of value is thy freight—'tis not the Present only, Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone—not of thy western, Earth's résumé entire floats on thy keel, O ship—is steadied by thy, With thee Time voyages in trust—the antecedent nations sink or swim, With all their ancient struggles, martyrs, heroes, epics, wars, thou. (Surely it is alive!). As An added benefit is the creation of a to return.

Yosemite; And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound.

That is happiness.”, ― Herman Hesse, Bäume.

our air and water that are doing it. when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long the clouds is the sun still shining; The sea I take

But water sports and sings! seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful.

Humanity must become more environmentally aware and start using natural resources more efficiently, or an environmental catastrophe might eventually occur. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay, As to us at times, from the unknown.

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I too vine still clings to the mouldering wall. and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve We are stiff rows, weren’t the seeds planted, for Before children that every year spring out of me. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself—thy bibles incessant. the breeze rises, and turn many-colored. lost saints-I love thee with the breath. From a single bending blade of grass to the starry expanse of the night sky, and everything in between, composers of verse have been humbled, and moved, and inspired by the beauty, the complexity, and the surprises of the natural world — and they’ve written the poetry to prove it. And they To be afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground, Like Toward We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

He wants to be nothing except what he is. Some Home is within you. - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. have been, I have charged myself with. I’d

hide in cooling trees, a voice will run. Famous Poems by Famous Poets 36 Environment Quotes The environment, in modern-day, is a subject of debate especially as it relates to what is known as climate change. Hour prophetic—hour resuming the past! ", "Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize he flung outward, feet first, with a swish.