The universe is always singing,
And we must learn to listen,
So that our heart may join the universal chorus.
And we must learn to listen,
So that our heart may join the universal chorus.
~ Sarah Martha Baker - 19th c.
I was learning to live in Nature, shaping my life, my everyday activities in a direct way according to the weather, the seasons, the rising and setting of the sun and moon. I was once again becoming aware of Nature's all-powerful presence. If anyone had asked me, I would still have been unable to say what might be learned from Peter asleep among his animals on the prairie as I had seen him that first summer, but I was learning it. I was learning it slowly, painfully, in solitude and silence and out of my own experience.