Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver

Walked the same Provincetown woods every morning for fifty years. Wrote down what the trees and the heron and the geese were trying to tell me.

Mary Oliver

·2006·Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA

When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

Mary Oliver

·1992·Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

·2008·Provincetown, USA

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.