Quotable Quotes
Which poet asked the famous question, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
What author rode a bike from Mexico to Canada?
Sara Dykman
Which author describes the joy of discovering how butterflies interact with their environment?
Sara Dykman
Which author asks whether we want to be the asteroid or the fern?
Jacquelyn Gill
Which author said, “Climate rage smelled like pine”?
Thelma Young Latunatabua
Who wrote the fictional piece where a man feels so connected with a certain aquatic animal that he becomes it?
Julio Cortázar
Which author wrote about the mimosa pudica plant and how it folds its leaves when touched?
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Which author wrote a story that takes place in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris?
Julio Cortázar
Which author said, “you are what what you eat eats, too”?
Michael Pollan
What author invites us to look at animals as individuals and not in relation to ourselves?
Helen Macdonald
Which author believed that deep observation was a kind of wisdom, not just a skill, and wrote about the art of truly seeing nature?
Which author blends Indigenous knowledge and science, writing about sweetgrass and the idea of reciprocity with nature?
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Which writer talks about her discovery of fetal mice, saying “Death and life feed each other. I know that”?
Linda Hogan
Which author wrote about wayfinding and weaving in the context of island nations facing climate change?
Julian Aguon
This poet wonders who made the world and observes a grasshopper in vivid detail.
Which author discusses a plant perceived as a weed in some parts of the world, and an expensive houseplant in others?
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Which author quoted the philosopher Thomas Nagel as saying, “the only way to know what it is like to be a bat is to be a bat”?
Helen Macdonald
Which author’s piece takes place in the Siberian Taiga?
Jacquelyn Gill
Which 19th-century American poet wrote a poem that marvels at nature’s ability to transform decay into new life?
Walt Whitman
This poet, known for celebrating nature and democracy, wrote a poem to honor the ancient trees of the American West.
Walt Whitman