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 a universe I live in. …

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to th…

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but…

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwell…

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can …

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's w…

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the wor…

- Alison Hawthorne Deming

If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could ne…

- Alison Hawthorne Deming