Earth Song Quotes

“To say that people weren’t aware, from the first, of the effect the Industrial Revolution was having on nature—and on themselves—is to commit a falsehood.”
― Sara Barkat, Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience

“The only emotion I purposefully stayed away from is anger. Not because that isn’t also an important moment in human experience, because it is. But on this topic, that of the environment, there has been so much already dealt with on anger, on bitterness. Sometimes, in fact, that seems all it’s possible to find—both outside and in. But simple longing is so easily subsumed under more powerfully expressed emotions, and other things just as important as anger become overshadowed.”
― Sara Barkat, Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience

“But that’s not the whole story. The news is not and never has been, because it doesn’t talk about the small moments. Moments that matter to individuals, whatever they do or do not do in the grand scheme of things. And it is those individual moments that belong to people, that deserve to be faced and remembered as much as every big, world-changing disaster. And nature, because it exists in the details, is so easy to elide, even when trying to talk about it.”
― Sara Barkat, Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience