We clearly do live in a society that has a persistent pattern of racial disparity and I think most people would agree that that has something to do with our history.

We can disagree on the laws that are passed, and we often do. But the foundation of our society is that once a law is passed that we agree to obey it. We do not get to obey the laws that we like and disobey the laws that we don't like,

In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.

...All that combined is a greater burden on him than we, as a state and society, can impose.

The National Audubon Society is going state by state. The program is in 46 of the 50 states now.

Society was once surrounded by wilderness; now wilderness is surrounded by society. Once you divide that wilderness, it is no longer recoverable.