September 2011
22 posts
In Quietness & Returning Is Our Strength
Returning is the ultimate form of our repentance.
“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest— the cleared fields, the towns and cities, the highways— and re-enter the woods. For only there can a man encounter the silence and the darkness of his...
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Sometimes I can no longer think in the house or in the garden or in the cleared fields. They bear too much resemblance to our failed human history— failed, because it has led to this human present that is such a bitterness and a trial. And so I go to the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place. I enter an order that does not...
