"As I grew older the poetic surround becomes more important. I realize that the 'poetic attention' was more important to me than poetry was. The 'poetic attention' being a kind of longing without the desire to posess."

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“We inflict our rage for immortality on things, marooning them on static islands.”

“The medatative approach acknowledges that one moment will inevitably lead on to the next. We accept immortality instead of fighting it off.”

“The nature poet may , resort to the field guide or library but will keep coming back , figuratively speaking, to the trail - to the grain of experience.”

“Phenomenology is one name for the path back from the object to the thing, the counterbalance to the objectification or 'progress'.Poetry is another.”

“Poets are supremely interested in what language can't do , in order to gesture outside, they use language in a way that flirts with its destruction.”

“Admitting you are a nature poet, nowadays, may make you seem something of a fool!”

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