You will find more in the woods

"The man of sensitive soul enters the wood. He does it as if he were entering a temple forbidden to him. He seeks a contact with nature, but at the same time carries within himself a sense of guilt, the crime of belonging to it. humanity that has devastated and continues to ruin nature. His personal conscience may be clean, but the black inheritance of centuries and millennia in which the forest has been only a source of wood, to be plundered without scruples rests upon him. it was not profitable, it was burned to conquer its spaces, to make fields and pastures, or to build a city in its place. "

Troverai più nei boschi. Manuale per decifrare i misteri e i segni della natura

Francesco Boer, ed. Il Saggiatore