We believe in the magnificence and beauty of this world. For everyone. And for future generations.
We selectively invest in like-minded causes and organizations with the following mission:
Helping to put more Whitman in our days through Conservation, Education, and Opportunity.
And hopefully better connecting People, Nature, and Joy along the way.
Our own set of initiatives and programs aimed at putting more Whitman in our days as called for in his poem This Is What You Shall Do.
Love the earth and the sun and the animals.
Despise riches, give alms to everyone who asks.
Stand up for the stupid and crazy.
Devote your income and labor to others.
Hate tyrants.
Argue not concerning God.
Have patience and indulgence toward the people.
Take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or any number of men.
Go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with mothers of families.
Read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life.
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book.
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
