"In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out."

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For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming