wendell berry. why im majoring in what im majoring in, and more importantly, why i want to do community and rural development for a career probably is 80% attributed to berry. i know ive said it before, but ill say it again. read his 'idea of a local economy' itll rock your world. and get you ready for pt 2 of 'steady state,' whenever i get around to writing it.
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 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