{"id":2605,"date":"2022-07-07T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onenatureinstitute.org\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2022-07-07T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:50:11","slug":"the-peace-of-wild-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onenatureinstitute.org\/stories\/blog\/the-peace-of-wild-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peace of Wild Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, OneNature would like to showcase a poem called <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/poetry\/the-peace-of-wild-things\/\"><em>The Peace of Wild Things<\/em><\/a> written by <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/author\/wendell-berry\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onbeing.org\/author\/wendell-berry\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657309035148000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04d8PD1s2isz3fuW4_vvI8\">Wen<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/author\/wendell-berry\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onbeing.org\/author\/wendell-berry\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657309035148000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04d8PD1s2isz3fuW4_vvI8\">dell<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/author\/wendell-berry\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onbeing.org\/author\/wendell-berry\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657309035148000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04d8PD1s2isz3fuW4_vvI8\"> Berry<\/a>, an American novelist, poet, and environmental activist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>&#8220;When despair for the world grows in me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and I wake in the night at the least sound<\/em><br \/>\n<em>in fear of what my life and my children\u2019s lives may be,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I go and lie down where the wood drake<\/em><br \/>\n<em>rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I come into the peace of wild things<\/em><br \/>\n<em>who do not tax their lives with forethought<\/em><br \/>\n<em>of grief. I come into the presence of still water.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And I feel above me the day-blind stars<\/em><br \/>\n<em>waiting with their light. For a time<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out more of <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/author\/wendell-berry\/\">Wendell Berry&#8217;s<\/a> work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, OneNature would like to showcase a poem called The Peace of Wild Things written by Wendell Berry, an American novelist, poet, and environmental activist. &#8220;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\u2019s lives may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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