Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans," and Walt Whitman called him his "master."
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Welcome! May we pour you a cup of tea? For this is an oasis with a mission, custom-made for we the people to consider, with neighbors near and far, how best to address our humanitarian and planetary crises, how best to solve our increasingly wild and fractious rides around the sun.
May the insights and inspirations throughout this town meeting for the planet — presented on the wings of essays, images, speeches, artwork, film, literature, poetry, and music — move you to help fan the aspirational breezes of our shared humanity into winds of change we so urgently need.
May the insights and inspirations throughout this planetary assembly -- presented on the wings of essays, images, speeches, artwork, film, literature, poetry, and music -- move you to help fan the aspirational breezes of our shared humanity into the winds of change we so urgently need.
Let us together orchestrate a future that works for all sentient beings, a future that empowers succeeding generations with unrestrained kindness, understanding, love, and, not least, deep respect for the enthralling and necessary variety of life on Earth.
