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Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. the silence of the scrub was primordial. the wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.

-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Men Had Reached Into The Scrub And

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. the silence of the scrub was primordial. the wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.

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We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as god made it, out in the place where god made the ant to be. when we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. he is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of god, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. the ant and the man are both creatures.

This is what metaphor is. it is not saying that an ant is an elephant. perhaps; both are alive. no. metaphor is saying the ant is an elephant. now, logically speaking, i know there is a difference. if you put elephants and ants before me, i believe that every time i will correctly identify the elephant and the ant. so metaphor must come from a very different place than that of the logical, intelligent mind. it comes from a place that is very courageous, willing to step out of our preconceived ways of seeing things and open so large that it can see the oneness in an ant and in an elephant.

You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. you will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. but who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. between the silence of the world and the silence of god. when we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from god, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. on one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. on the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; the glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush the descending blue; that blue is all in a rush with richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. what is all this juice and all this joy? a strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning in eden garden.-have, get, before it cloy.

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