"The atmosphere, the earth, the water, and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecospheres, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts, because we couldn't live without them. "
Wendell Erdman Berry
August 15, 1934 - August 31, 2026
An American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer
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"September days are here,
By all these lovely tokens, September days are here.
With summer's best of weather,
And autumn's best of cheer.
But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air
Is unto me the secret
Which make September fair.
"T is a thing which I remember;
To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
I never can forget."
Helen Hunt Jackson
Originally printed in Poems (Robert Brothers, 1892)
This poem is in the public domain
