#thepeaceofwildthings

[edgelarks]

We're lucky to live near a beautiful park, with some astonishing, enormous old trees. But we've been puzzling why this one, which we took to be an oak, still has his leaves when all his neighbours are naked?! Can anyone identify him? #trees #plantlife #gardenersquestiontime #pleasantdistractions #thepeaceofwildthings https://www.instagram.com/p/CJwfjW_huMZ/?igshid=1v056vvo0xb2e

[f0restpunk]

Fauna Am staying in the most beautiful house this weekend. The magick is so powerful, so tangible. I really fucking needed it, to be honest. . #fauna #wildlife #wildthings #wherethewildthingsare #thepeaceofwildthings #animals #animallover #animalsaremagic #magick #feral #feralmagick #feralzen #wolves #crows #corvidae #fox #kitsune #skulls #chthonic #pagan #pagansofinstagram #witch #witchesofinstagram #witchcraft #hedgewitch #naturalmystic #art #artlover #artstagram #jsimpson (at Sandy City) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1kM1xOhtM8/?igshid=12rqv5ui0p45i

[firsteditionbookblog]

Thanks to @blackswanbooks.lex for this wonderful Wendell Berry broadside. It seems like so many of his poems reflect a certain peacefulness, and the title and lines both work to foster a sense of rest. I find myself gravitating towards works like this which express environmental concerns without relying heavily on horror or shame, but instead seem to provide a vision of a hopeful future. Berry is a master, and now I’m tasked with trying to find the wall space for another great piece of ephemera. Hopefully the lady doesn’t mind another frame in the hallway! Published on the Larkspur press, in Like New condition. 1 out of 250. . . . . . . . . #wendellberry #modernfirsteditions #appalachianpoetry #thepeaceofwildthings #poetry #southernpoetry #ephemera #broadside #rarebooks #bookcollecting #kentucky #ky #lexington #lexingtonkentucky #appalachianlit #appalachianliterature #southern #pastoralpoetry #bibliophile #shelfie https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs9iSRYAPQY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qvv9hrcc1xyk

[philosophicalvegan-blog]

[yourjumpercablelips]

I can always count on my lovely gf to breathe life into me with words.

The Peace of Wild Things

BY WENDELL BERRY

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.

Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things" from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Copyright © 1998. Published and reprinted by arrangement with Counterpoint Press.

Source: Collected Poems 1957-1982 (Counterpoint Press, 1985)

[calmmysoul-blog]

Congratulations @gomez4prez! You've won our #thepeaceofwildthings contest! Thanks to everyone that submitted a photo. We appreciate each and every one of you..