The Peace of Wild Things

The Peace of Wild Things
Title The Peace of Wild Things PDF eBook
Author Wendell Berry
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 146
Release 2018-02-22
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0141987138

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If you stop and look around you, you'll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cup. On the hills, the beginnings of green, clover and grass to be pasture. The fowls singing and then settling for the night. Bright, silent, thousands of stars. You come into the peace of simple things. From the author of the 'compelling' and 'luminous' essays of The World-Ending Fire comes a slim volume of poems. Tender and intimate, these are consoling songs of hope and of healing; short, simple meditations on love, death, friendship, memory and belonging. They celebrate and elevate what is sensuous about life, and invite us to pause and appreciate what is good in life, to stop and savour our fleeting moments of earthly enjoyment. And, when fear for the future keeps us awake at night, to come into the peace of wild things.

Wild Peace

Wild Peace
Title Wild Peace PDF eBook
Author Irene Latham
Publisher Roaring Brook Press
Pages 21
Release 2021-10-19
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 125086108X

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Wild Peace by Irene Latham and Il Sung Na is a lush, soothing mindfulness picture book about finding solace in the natural world. With lyrical text and whimsical art, Wild Peace follows a girl whose imagination helps her escape her frenzied home and discover the joys of nature. After enjoying the serenity of the forest, she is finally ready to return to her family, where peace welcomes all that is wild, and kisses the forehead of every child. When the world fills with noise and fury, and the days pass, all rush and scurry, it's time to step into the forest . . .

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
Title The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry PDF eBook
Author Wendell Berry
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 246
Release 2010-08
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 1458758028

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This rich volume reflects the development of Berry's poetic sensibility. ''the Selected Poems of Wendell Berry makes available cartloads and heaps of clear and fluent work from Berry's fourteen books of poetry and four decades of writing, closely documenting the inner and the visible lives Berry sees and feels in agriculture and in nature.''

Becoming Wild

Becoming Wild
Title Becoming Wild PDF eBook
Author Carl Safina
Publisher Henry Holt and Company
Pages 384
Release 2020-04-14
Genre Nature
ISBN 1250173345

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 "In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."—The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures—what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But this book reveals cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places. It shows how if you’re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too come to understand yourself as an individual within a particular community that does things in specific ways, that has traditions. Alongside genes, culture is a second form of inheritance, passed through generations as pools of learned knowledge. As situations change, social learning—culture—allows behaviors to adjust much faster than genes can adapt. Becoming Wild brings readers into intimate proximity with various nonhuman individuals in their free-living communities. It presents a revelatory account of how animals function beyond our usual view. Safina shows that for non-humans and humans alike, culture comprises the answers to the question, “How do we live here?” It unites individuals within a group identity. But cultural groups often seek to avoid, or even be hostile toward, other factions. By showing that this is true across species, Safina illuminates why human cultural tensions remain maddeningly intractable despite the arbitrariness of many of our differences. Becoming Wild takes readers behind the curtain of life on Earth, to witness from a new vantage point the most world-saving of perceptions: how we are all connected.

The World-Ending Fire

The World-Ending Fire
Title The World-Ending Fire PDF eBook
Author Wendell Berry
Publisher Catapult
Pages 368
Release 2018-05-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1640090290

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The most comprehensive―and only author-authorized―Wendell Berry reader, "America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living" (Chicago Tribune). In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defense of local landscapes, essays that celebrate our cultural heritage, our history, and our home. With grace and conviction, Wendell Berry shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy―the natural world will not allow it. Yet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope. We may be locked in an uneven struggle, but we can and must begin to treat our land, our neighbors, and ourselves with respect and care. As Berry urges, we must abandon arrogance and stand in awe.

More Than Peace and Cypresses

More Than Peace and Cypresses
Title More Than Peace and Cypresses PDF eBook
Author Cyrus Cassells
Publisher Copper Canyon Press
Pages 114
Release 2004
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1556592140

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A lyrical "book of heroes" about the role of art, creation, and inspiration.

Wild Communion

Wild Communion
Title Wild Communion PDF eBook
Author Ruth Baetz
Publisher Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
Pages 0
Release 1997
Genre Meditation
ISBN 9781568381879

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With examples of the author's own moving experiences, as well as ingenious suggestions for finding quiet natural settings in which to commune with nature close to home, this book is designed to help readers to create a stronger bond with their spiritual source.