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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
(13,785 posts)liberalla
(9,273 posts)Thank you
appalachiablue
(41,187 posts)Hekate
(90,939 posts)With gratitude
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Silver Gaia
(4,548 posts)🩶🤍🤍
flying_wahini
(6,680 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,491 posts)wendyb-NC
(3,342 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
(12,881 posts)Thankyou for sharing.
Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,232 posts)There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
calimary
(81,558 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
(22,600 posts)MiHale
(9,792 posts)Opened DU, landed on your post. Fitting. Thanks Donkees.
cilla4progress
(24,791 posts)It was my go to after the 9-11 attacks.
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WestMichRad
(1,340 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