Paula

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“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