In Praise of the Giraffe
“It is one thing to see far; it is another thing to go there.”
Constantin Brancusi
Yes, it sees far
And yes, it goes there
It carries its big heart
With the grace of a butterfly
And often plunges its tongue
Into savannahs of delight
It lives from the land
And dies on the land
Above all a voiceless being
Wordlessly addressing our soul
Perhaps an early warning to all
Hiding their grief by words alone
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Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He initiated this blog partly in celebration of his 80th birthday.
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