Love the Earth & Sun & the Animals… – Walt Whitman – Bookmark

2″ X 6″ Love the Earth & Sun & the Animals Depise Riches Give Alms to Every One that asks Stand Up For the Stupid & Crazy Devote Your Income & Labor to others Hate Tyrants Argue Not Concerning God Have Patience & Indulgence Toward the People Take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men Go Freely with powerful uneducated persons & with the young & with mothers of families Read These Leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life Reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book Dismiss whatever insults your own soul, & your very flesh shall be a great poem… – Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass, 1855