Ocupation: Author
Life: June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968
Birthday: June 27
Death: June 1
Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.
source: Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation
topic: Beautiful, Sweet, Hands, Sawdust, Antlers