“When despair for the world grows in me…I go and lie down where…the great heron feeds, I come into the peace of wild things….”
Listen here to Wendell Berry read the complete The Peace of Wild Things as published in Wendell Berry, New Collected Poems © Counterpoint, 3/26/2013.
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Great Blue Heron, watercolor painting by Mary O’Connor © 2011
Beautiful painting, beautiful sentiment.
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Do you recall sending me that quote?
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Mary, Beautiful picture as always. He looks so real like he will fly away. Ruth Petrucci
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Thanks!
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