When despair for the world grows for 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 dayblind stars, waiting with their light, for a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Trivia: Poem recited on ER by the Alan Alda character Dr Gabe Lawrence