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cognomun's avatar

I suppose there’s comfort in knowing some nature shall remain on this planet after we temporary human occupants annihilate ourselves through war, famine, pestilence or broadcasted toxicity. I certainly hope the new occupants will take better care of the place.

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Linda Hardison's avatar

I have never seen the Grand Canyon, but your writing makes it come alive. I spent some time in Nee Mexico about 20 years ago visiting a friend and it was amazing and beautiful. I agree with you about the power of the natural world to heal our wounds. I live on a river in a village in NH, and the river is always present, sight, sound, ( well frozen in winter) but having a larger, cycle present helps to break out of the turmoil present today. River’s going to flow. I am sure you know the poem by Wendell Berry called The Peace of Wild Things ? Going to just leave it here. Seems appropriate. ♥️ thank you for your writing.

The Peace of Wild Things

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.

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