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leucocrystal's review against another edition
5.0
"Such a little piece of the world as he has before him now would be worth a man's long life, watching and listening. And then he could go two hundred feet and live again another life, listening and watching, and his eyes would never be satisfied with seeing, nor his ears filled with hearing. Whatever he saw could be seen only by looking away from something else equally worth seeing. For a second he feels and then loses some urging of the delight in a mind that could see and comprehend it all, all at once. 'I could stay here a long time,' he thinks. 'I could stay here a long time.'"
Everything Berry describes about living in nature, farming, being a part of the physical world, making a home and a life in a small town, manages to just be absolutely, completely beautiful, and more compelling than any other writer I've ever read to tackle those particular subjects. I don't know what more to say than that.
Everything Berry describes about living in nature, farming, being a part of the physical world, making a home and a life in a small town, manages to just be absolutely, completely beautiful, and more compelling than any other writer I've ever read to tackle those particular subjects. I don't know what more to say than that.
book_beat's review
5.0
“In body, now, he is an old man, but mind and eye look out of his old body into the shifting leafy lights and shadows among the still trunks with a recognition that is without age, the return of an ageless joy.” — Wendell Berry.
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I raved about JAYBER CROW last month and immediately picked up another book by Wendell Berry. THE WILD BIRDS follows a handful of the Port William residents — living, dying, farming, and saving each other with lots of grace and forgiveness. I’ve found this collection to be very healing for me, particularly a story about a grandson sitting at his dying grandfather’s bedside. Berry has broken into my all-time-favorite authors because he writes about the quiet, mundane moments. He shows how every tiny detail of life can be observed and redeemed with love.
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I raved about JAYBER CROW last month and immediately picked up another book by Wendell Berry. THE WILD BIRDS follows a handful of the Port William residents — living, dying, farming, and saving each other with lots of grace and forgiveness. I’ve found this collection to be very healing for me, particularly a story about a grandson sitting at his dying grandfather’s bedside. Berry has broken into my all-time-favorite authors because he writes about the quiet, mundane moments. He shows how every tiny detail of life can be observed and redeemed with love.
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