I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience.… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us -… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
