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One of my favorite #poems. Seems appropriate for the moment.
The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry
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#Poetry #Peace #WendellBerry
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#GeneenMarieHaugen: "The Temple of the #HolyEarth is everywhere - or *was* everywhere, & perhaps could be yet recovered. As #WendellBerry writes, 'There are no unsacred places;/ there are only sacred places / & desecrated places.'...Desecrated lands ask for our attention & care." bit.ly/4sqRlZ3
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“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief … For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” ~ #WendellBerry
#UULent
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A quotation from **Wendell Berry**
> The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
**Wendell Berry** (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet […]
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“The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.” #WendellBerry
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A quotation from **Wendell Berry**
> Do not think me gentle
> because I speak in praise
> of gentleness, or elegant
> because I honor the grace
> that keeps this world. I am
> a man crude as any,
> gross of speech, intolerant,
> stubborn, angry, full
> of fits and furies. That I
> may have […]
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A couple of years ago, I started reading Wendell Berry’s Port William novels and some of his essay collections. His thoughts and values have made a tremendous impact on me, which I’ll try to explain briefly.
His book The Unsettling of America (1977) makes an argument for what people today might […]
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The Want of Peace All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardner's musing on rows. I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men, and that has bent my mind and made me think of darkness and wish for the dumb life of roots.
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Nature’s Sanctuary
Finding peace in the wild things as Wendell Berry would say 💙
18x24
Oil on canvas
Available
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#nature #sanctuary #peace #wildthings #wendellberry #oilpainting
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Our new series on Substack: “Poetry, Dreaming, and Psychoanalysis,” edited by Eugene Mahon is live! he discusses #WendellBerry poem - drawing connections between dreams, psychoanalysis and poetry. In it, he explores, among other themes, #memory, #death and #grief. open.substack.com/pub/thepsych...
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
#wendellberry #lovemothernature #thanksandpraise #lightandlove #liminalspace #shinrinyoku #darkforest #starrynight #walkthebeautyway #closetotheoaks #pagansky #heathensky #occultsky
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Look It Over, a poem by Wendell Berry
Look It Over, a #poem by #WendellBerry
". . . , the earth itself, sadly
abused by the stupidity
only humans are capable of"
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A Warning To My Readers a poem by Wendell Berry
A Warning To My Readers
by Wendell Berry
#WendellBerry #poem #poet
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A quotation from **Wendell Berry**
> Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
**Wendell Berry** (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet […]
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Sit and be still
until in the time
of no rain you hear
beneath the dry wind's
commotion in the trees
the sound of flowing
water among the rocks,
a stream unheard before,
and you are where
breathing is prayer.
#wendellberry #llovemothernature #darkforest #pagansky #occultsky #heathensky #moonmagic
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The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on teh water, and where 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
A close-up photograph of a poem partially typed out on a typewriter.
I offer typewritten gift messages as an add-on for book purchases. Today a customer asked for Wendell Berry's poem "The Peace of Wild Things," which begins w/such a line for these times:
"When despair for the world grows in me..."
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A rare literary treasure for serious readers — an #autographed photo of #WendellBerry, the celebrated poet, novelist, and environmental thinker whose work has shaped American letters for over half a century. Authenticated by @beckettcollect. eBay tinyurl.com/37c82z27 Amazon tinyurl.com/4x9vazf3
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Wendell Berry and the nurture of the earth.
#blog #poetry #environment #wendellberry
annemichael.blog/2026/01/12/u...
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When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, 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.
Lovely example of #ThePeaceOfWildThings.
Do you know this poem by #WendellBerry?
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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” ― Wendell Berry
Not knowing which way to go isn’t always a failure.
Sometimes it’s the point where attention deepens — like a stream that finds its voice through resistance.
#WendellBerry #BuildingTheLifeboat
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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?” — Wendell Berry
Berry steps around the question of success entirely.
The work isn’t about whether we’ll prevail — it’s about responding to what this earth asks of us, now.
#WendellBerry #BuildingTheLifeboat
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Wishing everyone moments of peace of wild things...
#WendellBerry #poetry
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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.” — Wendell Berry
At the solstice Berry offers this image: a body moving through cold and danger, sowing clover anyway.
Not denial.
Not optimism.
Just tending life in season.
Happy Solstice, steady, present.
#WinterSolstice #HomelessInTheAgora #WendellBerry
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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” — Wendell Berry
Soil is a reminder that life moves long before we can see it.
Care, patience, and steady tending create the flow we depend on.
Sometimes the work is happening underneath our feet.
#Grounded #SlowWork #RegenerativeCulture #wendellberry
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