I have only just heard that Lesley Crawford has passed away. I never met Lesley but have read her books. Like her I love wild trout fishing and wild Scotland and for those of us who do there is a close link. My deepest sympathy go to her family. Matt Wright

I never knew Lesley but hope that this, my favourite poem may be a fitting tribute to a lady who loved " The Peace of Wild Things " When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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