Peace In Nature

Photo taken by contributor Hank Shaw, a writer and amateur photographer who has had several family members who have struggled with serious depression. He lost a brother to suicide in 1984.

About this photo: “I ran across a poem from Wendell Berry called ‘The Peace of Wild Things’. It says everything I could possibly say about the role of nature photography in my life:

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.”

Find more from Hank on Instagram @guywithtie.

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8 replies to “Peace In Nature”

Hank….nice image, gorgeous colors and exquisite feel. en theos…jasL

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like a painting. Lovely.

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Reblogged this on Rich's Rambles and commented:
There is beauty, and then there is Beauty! This is Beauty and he quotes one of my favorite poets, Wendell Berry.

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beautiful

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Thanks for the reminder of this profound poem. It illuminates your lovely photo quite well. I like that rather than describing the photo (it speaks for itself) you offer the poem.

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