Status Updates From Good Poems, American Places

Really great anthology, adding many to my favored favorite poems.

"Not in the cities, not among fabricated towers,
Not on the superhighways has the land been matched.
Beside the mountains, man's invention cowers.
And in a country various and wild and beautiful
How cheap the new car and lighted movie look.
We have been hourly aware of a failure to live,
Monotonous poverty of spirit and the lack of love."

"I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all."