Paula

“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, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx