I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with f…

Wendell Berry
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ✨ Wendell Berry (2012). New Collected Poems, p.79, Counterpoint Press
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