Poem

By Jorie Graham

The earth said
remember me.
The earth said
don’t let go,

said it one day
when I was
accidentally
listening, I

heard it, I felt it
like temperature,
all said in a
whisper – build to-

morrow, make right be-
fall, you are not
free, other scenes
are not taking

place, time is not filled,
time is not late, there is
a thing the emptiness
needs as you need

emptiness, it
shrinks from light again &
again, although all things
are present, a

fact a day a
bird that warps the
arithmetic of per-
fection with its

arc, passing again &
again in the evening
air, in the pre-
vailing wind, making no

mistake – yr in-
difference is yr
principal beauty
the mind says all the

time – I hear it – I
hear it every-
where. The earth
said remember

me. I am the
earth, it said. Re-
member me.

From Earth Prayers

“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us,
new, untouched, full of things that have never been…”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

As we wave goodbye to another year, we’d like to thank you for believing.

Believing that it’s possible to create a kinder, more compassionate world.

Believing that it’s possible to create a healthier planet.

Believing that you can create
good things that have never been
by turning beliefs into action.

We are so grateful to you
for planting seeds of positive change.

With your support of the FWP
read-and-plant partnership,
you’re contributing to a brighter,
more sustainable future
by helping us plant trees
for people and planet.

Trees that turn down the heat,
purify air, water, and soil,
and provide habitat for our
furry and feathered friends.

Well done, Believers!

Wishing you a happy, healthy, peaceful 2025!

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Favorite World Press Forest Update

With the help of our partners at Tree-Nation and American Forest, we’ve planted across 14 projects around the world, bringing our carbon capture total to 6,110 tons of CO2. That’s equivalent to 6,787,079 pounds of coal burned, or 519,389 bags of waste recycled instead of landfilled, or 15,559,479 miles driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle (that’s about 610 times around the Earth).