Poet Mary Oliver reminded us what Earth is meant to look like

Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her critical acclaim and popular affection, has died. She was 83.

Author of more than 15 poetry and essay collections, Oliver wrote brief, direct pieces that sang of her worship of the outdoors and disdain for greed and other human crimes. Her muses were owls and butterflies, frogs and geese, the changes of the seasons, the sun and the stars.