Nature Book Reader June 2020 - Flipbook - Page 95
the sheer majestic power
of nature and it’s effect on
the mind of man. It’s as
good a place as any to
begin to understand his
undoubted greatness.
It was like a church to me
I entered it on soft foot
Breath held like a cap in the hand.
What God was there made
himself felt,
Not listened to, in clean colours
That brought a moistening
of the eye,
In movement of the wind
over grass.
There were no prayers said.
But stillness
Of the heart’s passions – that
was praise
Enough; and the mind’s cession
Of its kingdom. I walked on,
Simple and poor, while the
air crumbled
And broke on me generously
as bread
Further Reading
Growth Of The Soil
by Knut Hamsun
Complete Country
Bizarre by Andy Pittaway
and Bernard Scofield
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