Book Excerpts
Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
Wandering: Notes and Sketches
Hesse Hermann · 1920
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. …
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
Thoreau Henry · 1854
from Chapter 1: "Economy"
I moved to my house on the Fourth of July, as soon as it was boarded and roofed, for the boards were carefully feather-edged and lapped so that it was perfectly impervious to rain; but before …
Out of Africa
Blixen Karen · 1937
(First pages and selected excerpts)
1. THE NGONG FARM
I HAD a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of …