This Wendell Berry poem print features “The Sycamore” a moving reflection on resilience, belonging, and the places that shape us. Berry looks at an old sycamore that has weathered storms, scars, nails, fences, and years of hardship, yet continues to grow. There’s something deeply comforting in the idea that what we go through can become part of who we are without diminishing us.
The poem’s quiet appreciation for nature gives this Wendell Berry wall art a warm, grounded feeling. Paired with delicate botanical greenery, it feels at home among nature-inspired decor, literary wall art, or anywhere you want a little reminder to stay rooted. It would be especially lovely in a reading nook, home library, bedroom, office, or peaceful corner of the home.
A thoughtful gift for a poetry lover, Wendell Berry reader, gardener, nature enthusiast, or someone going through a season of change. The themes of resilience, home, and finding your place make it especially meaningful for a new home, birthday, retirement, graduation, or simply as an encouraging gift for someone you care about. Available framed or unframed.
UNFRAMED PRINT INFO:
MEDIUM: Photographic Fine Art Print (UNFRAMED)
SIZE: Please choose from the drop-down menu - Common print sizes are: 5x7, 8x10, 8.5x11, A4, 11x14, 12x16, 16x20, 18x24, and 24x36. Custom sizing is available, please send a message before completing your purchase to check the price of your custom size.
About your print:
Printed professionally on high-quality photographic paper (NOT cheap card stock!) with a beautiful lustre finish (closely related to matte) with a slight sheen, using archival inks that will last for years.
It arrives carefully wrapped, unmatted, and unframed.
FRAMED PRINT INFO:
Frames are available in the following sizes: 8x10", 11x14", 12x16", 16x20", 18x24", 24x36"
- Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
- Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
- Paper weight: 5.57 oz/yd² (189 g/m²)
- Lightweight
- Acrylite (Acrylic) front protector
- Hanging hardware included
- Available in Black, White, and Natural Wood - The default color is black but if you would like to change the color to white or natural wood, leave a message in the "message to seller" box at checkout.
PLEASE NOTE:
-Shipping upgrades are not available for framed prints.
-The framed print option does not include a mat
*** Looking for a downloadable file? You can order it here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/825353685
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Thank you for reading the description! Use the code "DESCRIPTION15" to receive 15% off your order of unframed prints.
"In the place that is my own place, whose earth
I am shaped in and must bear, there is an old tree growing,
a great sycamore that is a wondrous healer of itself.
Fences have been tied to it, nails driven into it,
hacks and whittles cut in it, the lightning has burned it.
There is no year it has flourished in
that has not harmed it. There is a hollow in it
that is its death, though its living brims whitely
at the lip of the darkness and flows outward.
Over all its scars has come the seamless white
of the bark. It bears the gnarls of its history
healed over. It has risen to a strange perfection
in the warp and bending of its long growth.
It has gathered all accidents into its purpose.
It has become the intention and radiance of its dark fate.
It is a fact, sublime, mystical and unassailable.
In all the country there is no other like it.
I recognize in it a principle, an indwelling
the same as itself, and greater, that I would be ruled by.
I see that it stands in its place and feeds upon it,
and is fed upon, and is native, and maker."
This Wendell Berry poem print features “The Sycamore” a moving reflection on resilience, belonging, and the places that shape us. Berry looks at an old sycamore that has weathered storms, scars, nails, fences, and years of hardship, yet continues to grow. There’s something deeply comforting in the idea that what we go through can become part of who we are without diminishing us.
The poem’s quiet appreciation for nature gives this Wendell Berry wall art a warm, grounded feeling. Paired with delicate botanical greenery, it feels at home among nature-inspired decor, literary wall art, or anywhere you want a little reminder to stay rooted. It would be especially lovely in a reading nook, home library, bedroom, office, or peaceful corner of the home.
A thoughtful gift for a poetry lover, Wendell Berry reader, gardener, nature enthusiast, or someone going through a season of change. The themes of resilience, home, and finding your place make it especially meaningful for a new home, birthday, retirement, graduation, or simply as an encouraging gift for someone you care about. Available framed or unframed.
UNFRAMED PRINT INFO:
MEDIUM: Photographic Fine Art Print (UNFRAMED)
SIZE: Please choose from the drop-down menu - Common print sizes are: 5x7, 8x10, 8.5x11, A4, 11x14, 12x16, 16x20, 18x24, and 24x36. Custom sizing is available, please send a message before completing your purchase to check the price of your custom size.
About your print:
Printed professionally on high-quality photographic paper (NOT cheap card stock!) with a beautiful lustre finish (closely related to matte) with a slight sheen, using archival inks that will last for years.
It arrives carefully wrapped, unmatted, and unframed.
FRAMED PRINT INFO:
Frames are available in the following sizes: 8x10", 11x14", 12x16", 16x20", 18x24", 24x36"
- Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
- Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
- Paper weight: 5.57 oz/yd² (189 g/m²)
- Lightweight
- Acrylite (Acrylic) front protector
- Hanging hardware included
- Available in Black, White, and Natural Wood - The default color is black but if you would like to change the color to white or natural wood, leave a message in the "message to seller" box at checkout.
PLEASE NOTE:
-Shipping upgrades are not available for framed prints.
-The framed print option does not include a mat
*** Looking for a downloadable file? You can order it here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/825353685
-------
Thank you for reading the description! Use the code "DESCRIPTION15" to receive 15% off your order of unframed prints.
"In the place that is my own place, whose earth
I am shaped in and must bear, there is an old tree growing,
a great sycamore that is a wondrous healer of itself.
Fences have been tied to it, nails driven into it,
hacks and whittles cut in it, the lightning has burned it.
There is no year it has flourished in
that has not harmed it. There is a hollow in it
that is its death, though its living brims whitely
at the lip of the darkness and flows outward.
Over all its scars has come the seamless white
of the bark. It bears the gnarls of its history
healed over. It has risen to a strange perfection
in the warp and bending of its long growth.
It has gathered all accidents into its purpose.
It has become the intention and radiance of its dark fate.
It is a fact, sublime, mystical and unassailable.
In all the country there is no other like it.
I recognize in it a principle, an indwelling
the same as itself, and greater, that I would be ruled by.
I see that it stands in its place and feeds upon it,
and is fed upon, and is native, and maker."