Douglas, Gilean
Gilean is a poet and writer-farmer in western British Columbia. His book Silence is My Homeland won first prize in the National Writers Club non-fiction competition in 1976.

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The earth is born again each year, and so are we. Silence is my homeland, 1978.

 

There are no human voices to call to me, but there is the river's music and the night wind in the trees and all the faint stirrings of woodsy things. Ibid.

 

Tree, flower and bird are my blood brothers and the golden clock of time has stopped so that I may listen to the swift beating of my many lives. Ibid.