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Related: About this forum🤍 The Peace of Wild Things
Douglas Liu
When despair for the world grows in me...
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
Atticus
(15,124 posts)republianmushroom
(13,847 posts)liberalla
(9,277 posts)Thank you
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)Hekate
(91,003 posts)With gratitude
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Silver Gaia
(4,552 posts)🩶🤍🤍
flying_wahini
(6,696 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,504 posts)wendyb-NC
(3,344 posts)That is an incredible idea, said with a sage spirit, beauty, and heartfelt love for the wild natural world. I'm bookmarking, it's like a gift.
Martin Eden
(12,885 posts)Thankyou for sharing.
Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,235 posts)There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
calimary
(81,593 posts)When despair for the world grows in me...
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
Love it, Donkees!
Karadeniz
(22,606 posts)MiHale
(9,799 posts)Opened DU, landed on your post. Fitting. Thanks Donkees.
cilla4progress
(24,798 posts)It was my go to after the 9-11 attacks.
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WestMichRad
(1,344 posts)Thank you for posting it, and for all the wonderful avian photographs!
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)I wish I could double-rec this post.
AndyS
(14,559 posts)wandering the fields and streams of rural Texas in the mid '50s.
Thanks to all for the hearts. I'm humbled to be noticed