Welcome to this episode of the summer series. Today’s episode includes three poems about nature, and more specifically, about how our engagement with the natural world can make the world of people maybe more bearable, certainly more beautiful.

The three poems are:

Each of them, in their own unique way, shows the poet as he contemplates nature and what it provides for us, either as an antidote to despair, as an escape from the tumult of the built world, as a blessing received from the bark of a beech tree.

The three poems here were all included in earlier episodes of the podcast, where they got their own introduction.

You can listen back to those by finding "The Peace of Wild Things" in Episode 70, "Hideout" in Episode 50, and "Blessings" in Episode 104.