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The poems were placed
on benches, and risers,

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and pavers, banners,
glass wood, stone walls

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throughout the park.

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And all of the contemporary
writers, whose work I selected,

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I want it to be not
just someone who

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happened to write a single
poem about the physical world,

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though I'm happy for
that, but I wanted

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to really begin to put together
an environmental canon.

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I mean, I thought,
you know, we're

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going to have millions of
readers over the years.

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And so all of the poems--
all of the poets I selected,

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and particularly the
contemporary poets,

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are poets working
in service or who

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have worked in service
to the physical world.

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This one, Bill Stafford,
a pacifist born in Kansas.

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He lived most of
his life in Oregon.

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Can you see what that says?

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"Love the earth like
a mole, fur-near."