When I am Among The Trees - Mary Oliver

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  • Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
  • Read By Amanda Palmer
    "When I Am Among The Trees" is about the calmness, majesty, and beauty of being surrounded by trees and walking in the woods.
    Remarks -
    Walking among trees has health benefits. Shinrin-yoku or "forest bathing" is a practice in Japan, where people are encouraged to visit and spend time in a forest to improve their health.
    Studies have confirmed that spending time within a forest setting can reduce psychological stress, depressive symptoms, and hostility, while at the same time improving sleep and increasing both vigor and a feeling of liveliness.
    Mary Jane Oliver was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild. It is characterized by a sincere wonderment at the impact of natural imagery, conveyed in unadorned language. In 2007 she was declared to be the country's best-selling poet.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 77

  • @WisdoMango
    @WisdoMango  2 роки тому +22

    Please like, share, and subscribe if you enjoy my content to help the UA-cam Algorithm gods bless this channel. : )

    • @AndyBends
      @AndyBends 2 місяці тому

      I will if you stop posting Mary Oliver.

  • @redwoods7370
    @redwoods7370 Місяць тому +14

    During the pandemic quarantine, I started taking long walks every day to get out of the house and because I live alone and needed to see other people. I gradually came to know the trees in my neighborhood individually as welcoming friends. This poem captures it perfectly and much better than I can express. The trees really did "save me daily." They became such good friends to me that I invited all of them to my daughter's wedding when the pandemic was over. They were there. They all came.

  • @Danika_Nadzan
    @Danika_Nadzan Місяць тому +15

    I am not usually a fan of poetry, but this is transcendant, beautiful, and speaks to my soul. Thank you for sharing!❤

    • @WisdoMango
      @WisdoMango  Місяць тому

      Thank you so much 🙏❤

  • @mralexander99
    @mralexander99 Місяць тому +6

    🦅🦋❤️‍🔥🌹This Is So Beautiful That Tears Drip From My Eyes 🌹❤️‍🔥🦋🦅

    • @WisdoMango
      @WisdoMango  Місяць тому +1

      Thank you so much 🙏

  • @Dawn-Songs
    @Dawn-Songs Місяць тому +7

    Mary is a kindred spirit of mine . She thinks the same way but she has the fascinating way of painting restful pictures with words in my mind . I love this poem ,because I could never live anywhere without trees to escape to . May my God bless her always .🕊️

  • @michellesuttoni4042
    @michellesuttoni4042 Місяць тому +4

    Trees are wonderful❤

  • @BellaWorldAni
    @BellaWorldAni 2 роки тому +39

    To go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.
    YES!

  • @ImpactGirlX2178-Studio
    @ImpactGirlX2178-Studio 2 місяці тому +6

    ❤ yes thank you Mary Oliver!

  • @jsg1925
    @jsg1925 Рік тому +18

    This is perhaps my most favorite poem. I get chills every time I watch this. A very beautiful reading.

  • @rekhabalakrishnan881
    @rekhabalakrishnan881 Місяць тому +6

    Her words touch my heart and I am transformed. 🙏

  • @Suspend02
    @Suspend02 Рік тому +8

    When the noise of the world is too much, we are helped by turning to the mystic. Mary Oliver is a spirit guide. Let us walk slowly and commune with the trees.

    • @redsol3629
      @redsol3629 Рік тому +2

      When I was overwhelmed, I would go to a place under trees and listen to the wind move the leaves.

    • @PaulaStreet
      @PaulaStreet Місяць тому +2

      @@redsol3629 That's beautiful and helpful, thanks :)

  • @nickmulcahy9199
    @nickmulcahy9199 Рік тому +5

    I thought this was Mary Oliver reading -- but it's Amanda Palmer who may be more Mary Oliver than Mary Oliver herself -- holding back the tears here in Philadelphia on a beautiful spring day...beautifully done Mary/Amanda, thankyou

  • @User76_abhE
    @User76_abhE 3 роки тому +45

    She is the type poet I was looking for since forever 🙏🏻

    • @WisdoMango
      @WisdoMango  3 роки тому +2

      Yeah she was amazing. Glad you liked it 🙏

    • @jaxsonsobol9998
      @jaxsonsobol9998 2 роки тому

      Who cares

    • @melisasegura4054
      @melisasegura4054 11 місяців тому +1

      Same ❤

    • @User76_abhE
      @User76_abhE 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@jaxsonsobol9998people who understands and enjoy poetry 😂 nd maybe u too, otherwise there's no need to comment if you don't care

    • @mralexander99
      @mralexander99 Місяць тому

      🦅❤️‍🔥🦅

  • @billbernhard3582
    @billbernhard3582 2 роки тому +6

    Among the trees speaks to the potential of man to be good and patient and kind. Can we treasure these things, passing them on to others, at some point in time ?

  • @radharcanna
    @radharcanna Місяць тому +1

    How beautiful.

  • @cattailer1077
    @cattailer1077 Місяць тому +3

    At the base and pinnacle of my soul is a tree. It's a different tree everyday of every season. I couldn't survive without them nor would I want to....not here, not ever. I think I may have been a tree once, I can only hope🌲

  • @judgeblodgett
    @judgeblodgett Місяць тому +1

    Wonderful. Thank you.

    • @WisdoMango
      @WisdoMango  Місяць тому

      Thanks for watching 🙏

  • @bellringer929
    @bellringer929 Рік тому +4

    Read by a beautifully waving tree, it seems ♥️

  • @estrela3889
    @estrela3889 Місяць тому +1

    This is beautiful!

  • @negroagro
    @negroagro 9 місяців тому +20

    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.
    I am so distant from the hope of myself,
    in which I have goodness, and discernment,
    and never hurry through the world
    but walk slowly, and bow often.
    Around me the trees stir in their leaves
    and call out, “Stay awhile.”
    The light flows from their branches.
    And they call again, “It's simple,” they say,
    “and you too have come
    into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
    with light, and to shine.

  • @rdbeckett590
    @rdbeckett590 Місяць тому +1

    Beautiful 🤩

  • @mdray3976
    @mdray3976 Рік тому +4

    I absolutely love this poem and Mary Oliver! She reaches so deeply and succinctly into my heart!
    I find that I have no words to describe how closely I feel to her an nature!

  • @melliecrann-gaoth4789
    @melliecrann-gaoth4789 Місяць тому +1

    Beautiful

  • @Pollyk
    @Pollyk Рік тому +3

    This made me cry😢

  • @presleyslave
    @presleyslave 8 місяців тому +1

    So very beautiful and with the insight into the purpose of meaning of our existence.

  • @davidwollpert5276
    @davidwollpert5276 2 роки тому +7

    One of my favorite poems, by one of my favorite poets.

  • @mh605
    @mh605 2 роки тому +4

    Beautifully read. Thank you!

  • @WritingArcadia
    @WritingArcadia 4 місяці тому

    I love Mary Oliver's poetry, and Amanda Palmer read this poem, "When I Am Among The Trees", beautifully well.
    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.
    I am so distant from the hope of myself,
    in which I have goodness, and discernment,
    and never hurry through the world
    but walk slowly, and bow often.
    Around me the trees stir in their leaves
    and call out, “Stay awhile.”
    The light flows from their branches.
    And they call again, “It's simple,” they say,
    “and you too have come
    into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
    with light, and to shine.”

  • @davidshiah7730
    @davidshiah7730 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for posting this heartfelt and nature centered poem. Love Mary Oliver!

  • @alruiz5096
    @alruiz5096 Рік тому +1

    Absolutely Beautiful❤

  • @tannercollins9863
    @tannercollins9863 19 днів тому +1

    Im not crying

  • @brianSalem541
    @brianSalem541 4 місяці тому

    Great poem! It has a very Thoreau-like sentiment. I wonder if Mary Oliver ever read Walden.

  • @evolutionangel1
    @evolutionangel1 27 днів тому

    🌹Mary

  • @yt-sh
    @yt-sh 5 місяців тому

    Good poem that is narrated well, thank you!

    • @WisdoMango
      @WisdoMango  4 місяці тому

      Thank you so much 🙏

  • @erin3292
    @erin3292 Місяць тому

    🙏✨🌸

  • @ciacalluvyou1470
    @ciacalluvyou1470 3 роки тому +3

    ❤️ 💜 Salute 💜 ❤️

  • @hughmacdonald3595
    @hughmacdonald3595 Місяць тому +1

    "When I am among the trees," I am surrounded by intellectual equals, I guess. "I am so distant from the hope of myself...," means what, exactly? "The light flows from their branches..." is equally inept.

  • @agustinacaruso
    @agustinacaruso 2 роки тому +1

    Un espectáculo! Hermoso!

  • @jacobprater3880
    @jacobprater3880 2 роки тому +5

    She is the female walt Whitman

  • @lorinkays1052
    @lorinkays1052 6 місяців тому

    ❤❤

  • @kevinharrison3265
    @kevinharrison3265 2 роки тому +2

    👍🙏🥰

  • @TerriblePerfection
    @TerriblePerfection 11 місяців тому

    😭

  • @tessmacie9924
    @tessmacie9924 Місяць тому

    Nice poem, nice voice; but why the music that hurt my ears?

  • @markwarne5049
    @markwarne5049 Місяць тому

    We can know the one who made everything, Jesus 🙏

  • @niallmacceide4603
    @niallmacceide4603 Місяць тому

    Away with the faeries imo.