Pin-drop wonder

wise and riddling book” - Robert Macfarlane “Magical … By turns lyrical

Indern und Arabern bereits in der Antike als Heilkraut bekannt

] Es ist eine wilde

der bisher gebaut wurde

The Wilds of Poetry - Adventures in Mind and Landscape Karl Müllenhoff Pin-drop wonderHenry David Thoreau, in The Maine Woods, describes a moment on Mount Ktaadin when all explanations and assumptions fell away for him and he was confronted with the wonderful, inexplicable thusness of things. David Hinton takes that moment as the starting point for his account of a rewilding of consciousness in the West: a dawning awareness of our essential oneness with the world around us. Because there was no Western vocabulary for this perception,