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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
(13,883 posts)liberalla
(9,278 posts)Thank you
appalachiablue
(41,203 posts)Hekate
(91,025 posts)With gratitude
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Silver Gaia
(4,552 posts)🩶🤍🤍
flying_wahini
(6,706 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,513 posts)wendyb-NC
(3,348 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
(12,887 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
(81,605 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
(22,607 posts)MiHale
(9,803 posts)Opened DU, landed on your post. Fitting. Thanks Donkees.
cilla4progress
(24,801 posts)It was my go to after the 9-11 attacks.
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WestMichRad
(1,349 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