[ book tip by DONNA Southern ] This book is truly remarkable. The read itself is a walk through the woods. One becomes lost in its fervor. I am a meanderer of woodlands and at times it has been so essential for me to preamble while my mind reels: a form of healing and meditation amongst the trees. 

The wood or forest is a place that has allowed me to grow as a human being. This book has been able to transport me to be surrounded by the nature and instinct deeply buried within my soul. I have been united with a spiritual nourishment that can only genuinely be achieved by being with nature. Robert Deakin has eloquently expressed through the power of words, exactly that: an impossible peace in an impasse before the storm.

Questioning our nature, Roger Deakin begs us to revisit the sensations of our birthright: a unity and return to our intimate kinship with nature. Within these thin slithers of wood, there are the most delicious cascades of mouthwatering descriptiveness that flow throught the soul and put us as one, within this beautifully wooded setting.

Inspired, I now spend time looking and thinking of David Nash's 'Wooden boulder' and have sought to buy a 'Shark' (a wooden railway cabin).
This book is its own little 'Time and Peace' capsule that I do not wish to finish ever. I dip in and out, gratifying my appetite whilst fearing reaching the end. The pleasure of his words slipping through and into me as if it were some 'Consomme', so extravagantly delightful that it soothes and heals my body like the proverbial chicken soup.


 

[ Favourite quote ] 'Uplifting, insightful,evocative... a cornucopia of giving and collecting'  Scotsman

[ book info ] Deakin, Roger: Wildwood. A Journey through the Trees. (Book language: Descriptive) Penguin, Suffolk, 2008 (2007). ISBN: 978014101001-4.