Everything Was Alive and Dying, a Janet Kuypers poem

Janet Kuypers reads the 1995 poem Everything Was Alive and Dying in a forest preserve, talking about how humans have managed to destroy nature now that we have expanded our civilization. This recording was made 05/15/07. For more information on this writing and other writings from Janet Kuypers, go to http://www.janetkuypers.com for more information and details.

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• poem
• Janet
• Kuypers
• nature
• humans
• civilization
• destruction
• wildlife

[tlwill56]

Ya, you pick on all the conservatives...but your new president has all the answers... right? Things have sure gotten better lately.... WHAT A JOKE!!

[ccandd96]

hey tlwill56, I never said I voted for Obama. I know he's a Chicago transplant and that's where I'm from, but that doesn't mean I voted for him. (I know that pretty much the rest of my state did, so what can you do.)

Not that the poem said anything about current politics. (Granted, it did rip on a few people at one point, but it pulled on political as well as religious names in the list). Its about the way people live, not voting.

[ccandd96]

Yeah, it would be great if people would think about the ideas in the writing here. Hopefully this makes people think, that's all.

[ccandd96]

Oh hi. thin ego over here just pulled a spam comment for watching this on some other movie url. Yes, because I pull spam comments other may think I have a thin ego. Oh well, I can take the bad with the good, but when people post garbage it gets uplled.

[MrElricStorm]

@baxtar1963 Ron Paul 2012, there is no republican democrat. its an illusion, a paradigm. if you follow thier thought process you are always mentally defeated. google alex jones.

[baxtar1963]

If it wasn't for the left this world would already be unlivable. Obama may not seem like the saviour we thought but having a republican controlled government now would certainly put this country six feet under. Maybe thats what we need to do just make things absolutely horrible before real change can be put in place.

[pnutbutrncrackers]

I don't think my comments, however carefully and sensitively expressed, would stand a chance, I really don't. But maybe, just maybe, this one, in its own way, might.

[hkssupratt]

awesome...man!

[MaryAClark1]

Great passion! Thought-provoking for those who can still think, and they are: people who are connected to the real physical and metaphysical world. You have unmasked the robo-ideologues right and left.

[pauldavisfan]

Love it!

[bruce3128]

nice ferns in the background