Tag Archives: Earth Day

Manifesto for the Earth’s Future

By Robin Bates | Published: April 21, 2020

Wendell Berry’s manifesto of “The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” is worth revisiting on this 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. It captures the spirit of the times.

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Earth Day: Please Brake for Woolly Bears

By Robin Bates | Published: April 22, 2015

Scott Bates’ Earth Day poem calls for protecting even caterpillars. After all, sometimes they grow up to be Keats’ tiger moths with their “deep damasked wings.”

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Mother Goose’s Ecological Warnings

By Robin Bates | Published: April 23, 2014

Scott Bates’ variation of familiar Mother Goose rhymes warn us of environmental devastation.

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The Day Rabbits Attacked Napoleon

By Robin Bates | Published: April 19, 2012

In honor of upcoming Earth Day, I share a poem based on an actual incidents where hundred of rabbits released to be hunted by Napoleon turned on the emperor’s party and routed them.

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