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The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems QUOTES

The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems QUOTES

1 " I see all that we have ruined in order to have, all that was owned for a lifetime to be destroyed forever. Where are the sleeps that escape such dreams? "

― Wendell Berry , The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems

2 " Another place! it's enough to grieve me - that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place. "

― Wendell Berry , The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems

3 " Another place!
it's enough to grieve me –
that old dream of going,
of becoming a better man
just by getting up and going
to a better place. "

― Wendell Berry , The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems

4 " There is no government so worthy as your son who fishes with you in silence beside the forest pool. There is no national glory so comely as your daughter whose hands have learned a music and go their own way on the keys. "

― Wendell Berry , The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems